LAHORE - The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed bail petition of a woman allegedly involved in kidnapping girls from Punjab and selling them on brothel houses of Sindh.
Hajra bibi, the accused petitioner, told the court that police falsely implicated her in a girl’s kidnap case. She said that she had nothing to with the kidnapping and the allegations leveled against them.
However, a prosecutor told the court that Hajra bibi kidnapped two daughters of Anwar Bibi and one of the girls secretly fled away from the brothel house she was forced to work at.
Later, the prosecutor said, the girl appeared before the magistrate and recorded her statement in which she said that Hajra Bibi kidnapped her and sold her to a brothel house against Rs 200,000. He quoted the statement of the victim girl that she was raped for a long time at a brothel house.
After hearing both sides, a two-judge bench headed by Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhary dismissed the bail petition of the accused lady.
Meanwhile, the SC dismissed bail petition of drug pusher Ghulam Murtaza.
The accused petitioner said that he was a shopkeeper and had not been involved in any such crime. He said that police implicated him in the case. A prosecutor told the bench that police arrested him red-handed and recovered 2000 grams hashish from his custody. The prosecutor produced police record before the court. After checking the police record, the bench dismissed the bail petition.
In another case, the SC dismissed bail petition of 7 persons accused of electricity theft. The accused include Muhammad Younas, Manzoor Hussain Shah, Muhammad Manzoor Hussain, Saqlain Abbas, Bilawar, Muhammad Boota and Zahir Abbass. Guranwala SDO raided at different places in Pindi Bhattian and found the accused thieving electricity.
The accused’s counsel said that they did not steel electricity; they were booked on the pressure of opponents. They requested the court to order police dismiss their case. After hearing both sides, the bench dismissed the bail of the petitioners.