ISLAMABAD, Oct 12: The Supreme Court on Thursday summoned a Sindh taluka nazim to explain as to why he was harassing a woman and her family members for not giving him vote during the last local government elections.

“It will be appropriate to hear Jan Memon, taluka nazim Kunri, Mirpurkhas District,” a two-member bench, comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and Justice Mohammad Nawaz Abbasi, observed, while issuing a notice to the accused through sessions judge Umar Kot. Sindh Inspector General Police was also directed to see to it that the notice was served on the nazim.

Ms Nadra from Kunri, in a complaint filed with the Supreme Court, had alleged that the taluka nazim was trying to abduct her girls. She also alleged that the accused had already made an indecent proposal, asking her to come to him along with her young daughters, and was using police to pressurise her.

The complainant, who appeared before the court along with three young daughters studying in class 9, 7 and a junior grade, narrated her ordeal before the bench. She alleged that the cohorts of the nazim teased her daughters on their way to school and made obnoxious remarks.

She said her husband, a peasant having a small landholding, had already been framed in a fake case and was under arrest.

Nadra, who has been staying at a low-rent hotel in Islamabad for the last one-and-a-half months, fears that her daughters would be kidnapped if she returns home.

On February 10, 2006, her house was raided by police late night just to harass her, she told the bench and pleaded that she should be provided a shelter as she could not afford to stay in the hotel.

Advocate General Sindh Anwar Mansoor sought three days to probe the allegations. While adjourning the matter for October 17, the bench ordered Deputy Attorney General Nahida Mehboob Ellahi to make arrangements for shifting the family to a suitable shelter houses in the capital.