HYDERABAD, Aug 12: The Judicial Magistrate-I, Fida Hussain Mughal, here on Monday, allowed Noor Bano, 20, a kidnapped woman recovered after six months, to go with her parents and husband as she expressed her wish to do so.

She repeated her statement of having been kidnapped from her house in Qasimabad, before the magistrate.

She said that a woman, Rasheeda alias Sajjada, with two persons, struck at her house and took her away towards an unidentified destination at gunpoint. She said that she was blindfolded and her hands were tied.

She said that Rasheeda, who had visited her house once earlier, told her that she had been kidnapped at the instance of Zahid Turk and Fareed Soomro.

Bano said that she landed in a village of Umerkot. She said that Rasheeda kept her there on sedatives.

After sometime, Noor Bano said, she fled after having heard Rasheeda asking some people to sell her.

She said that she reached Jeeyando Bhanpoto village after which Rasheeda lodged a case of kidnapping with the Nabisar police against Mir Hassan.

She said that she informed the police that she had taken refuge at the house of Hassan and that she wanted to merry him.

She said that she wanted to go with her parents and Hassan whom she had married later.

The magistrate set her at liberty.

The woman was recovered on Aug 7 in a raid at Jeeyando Bhanpoto by the Qasimabad police.

She had recorded her statement before judicial magistrate, Samaro, in which she had told her name as Rubina daughter of late Sarwar Rajput and said that she had not been kidnapped by anyone and left her house of her own will.

Her mother, Huzooran Abro, had staged a token hunger strike for seven months for her recovery.

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