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| Tayyaba torture case: SC reserves verdict on appeals of convicts |
| 2019-05-09 |
[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgement on appeals filed by a judge and his wife, who were locked awayDrop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! for torturing a minor maid employed as domestic help in Islamabad. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam had taken up appeals filed by former additional district and sessions judge Raja Khurram Ali Khan and his wife Maheen Zafar, who had been sentenced to one year in jail in April 2018 for keeping the then 10-year-old Taiba in wrongful confinement, burning her hand over a missing broom, beating her with a ladle, detaining her in a storeroom, and threatening her of "dire consequences". In June 2018, when both convicts appealed against the sentence, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had increased their jail time from one year to three years, with a Rs500,000 fine. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 This is different than beating domestic help. [/different] |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-05-09 10:33 |