RAWALPINDI: Police have arrested the husband of an additional deputy commissioner (ADC) on the charge of physically assaulting her, keeping her in illegal confinement and threatening her.

The suspect was sent to judicial jail on Monday.

ADC Maliha Sahar, resident of Judicial Complex Enclave Civil Lines, registered an FIR with the women police on Sunday stating that she was married to Jawad Ali and had two minor children. For the past several months, she had been subjected to continuous physical, psychological and emotional abuse at the hands of her husband. She said she remained silent and continued to compromise for the sake of her family.

However, she alleged that her husband’s conduct had progressively become more violent, coercive and dangerous and the situation became extremely serious on Friday when he physically assaulted and beat her, forcibly took away her mobile phone and confined her inside a room by locking it.

She alleged that she was prevented from leaving, contacting her family, seeing her children, approaching the police or seeking any form of emergency assistance.

The ADC said in the FIR that during the evening and Friday night, she was subjected to threats, physical violence and severe psychological abuse. The abuse and confinement continued during the whole night, she added.

She alleged that her husband repeatedly threatened to kill her, harm her children. By taking away her mobile phone and restricting her movement, he deliberately deprived her of the means to call for help and effectively isolated her from her family, police and other persons who could have provided assistance. She remained in a state of constant fear and vulnerability with no independent means of communication or safe opportunity to leave the premises.

She alleged that her husband had also used restriction on access to her minor children as a means of pressure, coercion and intimidation. The continuing threats, isolation, deprivation of communication and restriction of her freedom of movement had caused severe mental trauma and made it unsafe for her to remain without police protection.

She stated that in these circumstances, she had a grave apprehension for her life, physical safety and dignity. She sought police protection and requested legal proceedings against her husband.

Published in Dawn, October 6th, 2026