SUKKUR, Sept 15: The court of judicial magistrate and second civil judge Iqbal Hussain Maitlo allowed Ms Koonj, 18, and Ms Rukhsana, 12, to go live with their parents when police produced them in court on Monday after their recovery from a close relative’s house a day ago.

The girls said in their statement that they felt constant danger to their lives after their sister Gulshan sought refuge in Darul Amman citing threat to life from her husband Sanaullah and his relatives.

The court allowed them to go live with their parents and ordered police to provide them protection.

Sukkur police had recovered the sisters and their brother in an early morning raid on the house of the hostages’ grandfather Hamal Shar in the Hamal village on Sunday after an FIR was lodged by Head Constable Karim Bux Shar and his daughter Ms Gulshan, wife of Sanaullah Shar, accusing Sanaullah and his relatives of kidnapping Ms Koonj, Ms Rukhsana and brother Habibullah two days ago.

The kidnapping was preceded by Ms Gulshan’s escape from home and her refuge in a women’s police station in Sukkur on Thursday night. She told police at the time that she had fled home because her husband was planning to kill her on the pretext of karo-kari.

Ms Gulshan had told the court that five months after her marriage with Sanaullah, he and her in-laws started torturing her and then she came to know one day that they were planning to kill her on the pretext of karo-kari.

She said that she fled home one day for fear of getting killed and took refuge at the house of an influential of Shar tribe, who later handed her over to another influential chieftain in Daharki.

The court had then sent Ms Gulshan to Darul Amman when she said she felt danger to life at her husband’s house.—BoC