HYDERABAD, Oct 5: The Hyderababd circuit bench of the Sindh High Court on Friday annulled a marriage and allowed the woman to go with her father after she rejected the claims of a man, saying she had been subjected to rape on the basis of a false Nikahnama.

Mr Justice Amir Hani Muslim of the Sindh High Court Hyderabad circuit bench had issued an order for physical production for a young woman before the court and granted protective arrest bail to her husband against a sum of Rs100,000 till Friday.

The woman was produced before the court by TPO Dadu Gul Muhammad and ASI Muhammad Anwar of Rukkan police station through state counsel Masood A.Noorani.

She accused Abbas Khokhar, Ali Raza Khokhar and Jabbar Khokhar of trespassing into her house on August 19 and taking her to Nawabshah.

She said that she was locked-up in a room and then she was forced to sign a document at gunpoint, which was produced before a judicial magistrate.

She also accused the petitioner of having subjected her to rape despite her resistance.

She claimed she had fled from confinement and reached Nawabshah bus stand and then reached her home.

She said that she had filed a suit for dissolution of marriage on the basis of a fake Nikahnama before the magistrate. The court allowed her to go with her father when she said she was an adult and wanted to go with her father.

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