PESHAWAR, April 19: The Peshawar High Court rejected on Monday a bail petition of a person accused of women trafficking. Justice Malik Hamid Saeed observed that the accused petitioner did not deserve any leniency for he was charged with a heinous crime and could not be granted bail.

The accused, Qamar Khan alias Qamarae, is alleged to be a member of a gang involved in trafficking of women from the NWFP to Punjab and other parts of the country. The gang had allegedly paid Rs80,000 to parents of a married woman in Kalo Khan, Swabi district, and sold her in Punjab.

An FIR was registered with Kalo Khan police station last year by Nazeera, wherein she charged her parents and Qamarae with committing the offence. She claimed that she was asked by her parents to visit their residence for some urgent work. She added that when she visited her parents' residence in August, last, she was asked to accompany Qamarae.

She was taken to Punjab and handed over to another family from where she managed to escape and returned home in September. Ms Nazeera lodged a complaint with the police station concerned and an FIR was registered against her parents and Qamarae. The additional advocate-general, Ubaidullah Anwer, appeared for the government and argued that the accused-petitioner was directly charged by the complainant.