Married girl’s murder in cold blood: Family shuttles between offices of RPO, CPO for justice
* Victim’s mother appeals to CJP, Punjab CM for justice * Says they are called to police station in the dead of night and pressurized to reconcile with the accused
By Imran Asghar
RAWALPINDI: The family of a young girl killed in cold blood by her husband and mother-in-law has been shuttling between the offices of Regional Police Officer (RPO) Nasir Khan Durrani and City Police Officer (CPO) Rao Muhammad Iqbal for justice for over two months but of no avail.Blinking back his tears, Usman Ali, the brother of ill-fated Saba Sehar, 22, told Daily Times in a choked voice that his sister was married to Azhar Aziz, a resident of Adiala Road, last year.
He said in February this year Azhar in assistance with his mother, Azizun Nisa, beat his sister in revenge for not giving the hand of their youngest sister to his younger brother. They beat Saba black and blue, and when she collapsed on the floor from torture and demanded water, Azhar poured acid in her mouth.Usman said that his family shifted Saba to Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Hospital (BBSH) where she succumbed to injuries on March 13. Suspended between life and death, the victim narrated the entire episode to the investigation officer of Saddar Bairooni police. The police registered a case under Section 302/34 against Azhar and his mother and sent the former to Adiala Jail on judicial remand. However, his mother being co-accused was not arrested despite registration of an FIR.
In her death statement registered by the police, Saba said, “My mother-in-law grabbed me by hair, while my husband punched and kicked me, making me almost unconscious. When I fell down on the ground and was in a daze, I called for water. But my husband poured a glassful of acid in my mouth.”Usman said that the accused were politically influential and pressurizing his family through different tactics to make a compromise with them.
Appeal to CJP: Saba’s octogenarian mother Razia Begum told Daily Times that they were often called to the police station in the dead of the night and pressurized to patch things up with the accused. With tears rolling down her cheeks, she passionately appealed to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif to come to her rescue, as she was too old to shuttle between the offices of RPO and CPO and tolerate the pressuring tactics of police officials.“I just want that all those who tortured my beloved daughter to death be brought to justice.” She said a lot of their hard-earned money had gone down the drain visiting the offices of RPO and CPO but they won’t move beyond their verbal assurances of delivering them justice. “What if I died nursing a wish that my daughter’s killers were brought to justice?”
Razia begum said that she could meet Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Operations, Yasin Farooq on one occasion only. “SSP Yasin marked our application and directed the investigation officer (IO) to arrest the accused but the IO is treating them as criminals,” she said.
Police cliché: A police spokesperson told Daily Times that the police would ‘mobilize all their resources’ to arrest the co-accused. He said the CPO was busy in meetings that’s way the applicants could not be produced before him.He suggested that the applicants lodge their complaint with the CPO in an open court, which, he said, would be ‘fruitful’.
Source: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\05\17\story_17-5-2009_pg11_1
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