A court on Friday dismissed a remand application for a girl and her husband who had been booked under the Hudood Ordinance for marrying without the consent of girlÂ’s parents. Aruna of Okara had married her class fellow Moazzam Ali of Karachi without the consent of her father. Punjab and Sindh police had arrested the couple and Waqar Ahmed, AliÂ’s brother, at Latifabad in Sindh, taking them to Okara. Later, the Okara judicial magistrate disposed off all cases against the couple and ordered their immediate release.Recording her statement before a civil magistrate in Hyderabad earlier, Aruna Bibi said that she had married Ali six months ago against the wishes of her father. She said that her father, a retired sessions judge, had implicated them in a false case for marrying without his consent. On the way to Okara, Punjab police officials allegedly tortured Sindh police officials and threw them out of the police van, including a lady Sindh police constable.
The Interior Ministry has asked the Punjab and Sindh home secretaries to submit reports about the Aruna case and take action against police officials who abused their powers under the influence of the complainant. Later, Sindh High Court (SHC) Justice Musa K Leghari on Friday took suo motu notice of the arrest of Aruna Ata, a retired sessions judgeÂ’s daughter, and her husband Muazzam and his brother. The judge suspended the order of a Hyderabad civil giving custody of the detainees to the Okara police.