Girl lodged in women police station

Published September 25, 2008

LARKANA, Sept 24: Waleed police on Tuesday produced a 12-year old girl Shahnaz along with her father Allah Bakhsh Siyal in the court of the first additional session judge Larkana for sending her to Darul Aman due to threats to her life.

In her statement, she wished to go with her father as her husband Abdul Latif Brohi had been torturing her. She apprehended that she could be killed by her husband.

The court later asked police to go ahead in accordance with the law.

She was lodged at Women police station for medical check up on Wednesday.

Police later released her aged father Allah Bakhsh, a prayer leader in a village mosque.

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