HYDERABAD, Feb 20: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad Circuit Bench, has directed the investigating officer to produce police papers of a couple’s case and issued notices to AAG Sindh for February 28 on a petition, filed by a woman, Shabana.

The petitioner said she was the resident of Umerkot and left her house to marry Roshan Ali on January 30, 2008 on her own free will. She said she was not kidnapped and contracted Nikkah without any coercion. She said her parents were annoyed at her matrimony and lodged a false case against her and her husband at Police Station Umerkot. She said the police want to arrest her husband and causing harassment.

She prayed the court to declare criminal proceedings initiated against them illegal and restratin the respondents from arresting petitioner and her husband.—Correspondent