PESHAWAR, Nov 14: A woman litigant carrying a pistol was arrested from the court of Senior Civil judge Ms Kulsoom Azam in the judicial complex here on Tuesday.

Fahmeeda was allegedly pressurising her three daughters from her former husband and now living with the family of their father, to accompany her to her house.

The girls told the judge that they did not want to go with their mother as they were afraid of her. They said that she carried a pistol and had threatened to kill them and then commit suicide if they did not accompany her.

A court assistant, Pir Wali Shah, snatched the pistol from Fahmeeda who claimed that the pistol was licensed and belonged to her husband.

She was handed over to the East Cantt police where a case under section 13D of the Arms Ordinance was registered against her.

A court official told reporters that nine years ago Fahmeeda had left her husband and married Hazrat Ali, an official in the excise department.

Later, her former husband went missing and she filed an application before the court for custody of her daughters at present living with the their father’s family.

On Tuesday judge Ms Kulsoom Azam provided her an opportunity to meet her daughters in privacy to persuade them to accompany her.

Their paternal uncles and grand mother were also present in the courtroom.

When her daughters, the youngest one of them being 10-year-old, again appeared before the judge, they stated that their mother was in possession of a pistol and had threatened to kill them in case they did not go with her.

The judge asked the court assistant to tactfully seize the pistol. He made her show him the pistol and when she brought it out of her purse he snatched it from her.

It is worth mentioning that a number of shootout incidents have taken place in local courts in recent months.

About a month ago a woman was killed by her husband in the judicial complex.