Woman says she was forced into matrimony by staff of Dar-ul-Aman

Court orders registration of FIR

SUKKUR: The additional district and sessions judge here has ordered registration of an FIR against some of the staff members of Dar-ul-Aman.

The order was given in response to a complaint by a woman of Dar-ul-Aman who alleged that assistants to the in charge of Dar-ul-Aman, Saba and Zahida, last month had forced her to get married to a man who had paid them Rs50,000. She said that she managed to escape from the house of the man she had been forced to live with. She said she had been living in Dar-ul-Aman for the last nine months before the ugly incident happened.

Initially the woman had gone to the C-Section police station for protection where her statement was recorded and later the police took her to the court of the additional sessions judge to have her statement recorded there as well. 

The judge, Zulfiqar Shaikh, ordered the police to register an FIR against the accused and give protection to the woman.  Meanwhile, a police officer has made a startling disclosure that dozens of women at the Dar-ul-Aman had been forcefully handed back to their parents.  

Reports said that over such revelations, another judge, Nadeem Akhund, visited the Dar-ul-Aman where he inspected its record and met with many women there to ask them if they had had any complaints.

A police officer, Muhammad Essa, told the judge that some people at the Dar-ul-Aman had against the rules handed over 42 women to their parents. These women did not wish to go back to their parents because they anticipated threats to their lives. Reports said that the judge was shocked to hear all that.