PESHAWAR, Dec 10: The Peshawar High Court on Monday allowed bail to a couple arrested on charges of adultery, under the Hudood Ordinance.

A single bench comprising Chief Justice Mr Justice Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan directed that the applicant be released on furnishing two sureties each of Rs50,000.

The applicants, Ms Sabar Dana and Jamal Shah were arrested a few months ago by Nowshera police after an FIR was registered against them on the complaint of father of the female applicant.

Her father alleged that his daughter was already married to another person a few years back, but she eloped with the Jamal Shah.

He alleged that both of them entered into a wedlock which was a crime under the Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance 1979.

Advocate Bashir Khan Tanghi appeared for the applicants and argued that both of them had been falsely implicated in the instant case.

He contended that the Nazim and Naib Nazim of the union council concerned had conducted an inquiry and it had been proved that the female was not married to anybody before her present marriage.

He argued that an application was also given to the superintendent of police of Nowshera and on an inquiry from the elders of the area the police had come to know that the couple was innocent.