ISLAMABAD: A District and Classes Courtroom in Islamabad on Monday granted bail to civil choose’s spouse, who allegedly tortured and abused minor housemaid Rizwana.
Final month, Rizwana was delivered to the District Headquarters Hospital in Sargodha in essential situation reportedly with wounds on her face, head and physique that have been stated to have been brought on by a “blunt weapon”. The lady additionally bore burn marks on her physique.
She was later shifted to the intensive care unit (ICU) on the Lahore Common Hospital, with medical doctors fearing for the teenager’s life.
The case made headlines nationwide after photos of the bruised and battered lady, stated to be 14 years previous, went viral within the final week of July. Within the aftermath of the incident, it was revealed that she was employed on the residence of a civil choose, with the lady’s dad and mom saying that she had named the choose’s spouse, Somia Asim, as her abuser.
Throughout the proceedings on Monday, Further District and Session Decide Mohammad Haroon accredited the bail, ordering the accused to submit bond of Rs100,000.
Somia had been in judicial remand at Adiala Jail pending her bail utility. Her request for bail had been beforehand rejected by the courtroom.
Police sources, earlier, instructed media that Rizwana had offered a heart-wrenching account of the abuse she endured. The sufferer reportedly disclosed that the choose’s spouse was the primary perpetrator, subjecting her to bodily and emotional torment every day.
Rizwana’s assertion unveils a chilling sample of abuse that paints a grim image of her life inside the choose’s family. She reportedly detailed situations of being crushed with sticks, kicked, and slapped by the choose’s spouse in matches of anger.
The abuse allegedly escalated to the purpose the place she was regularly locked in a room for a number of days, left hungry and remoted from the skin world. Rizwana claimed that she was not even allowed to satisfy her personal dad and mom throughout her time of servitude.
One significantly distressing revelation is that Rizwana’s makes an attempt to speak along with her dad and mom have been carefully monitored by the choose’s spouse. Even throughout cellphone calls, the choose’s spouse was current, stopping the younger lady from sharing the true extent of her struggling along with her household.
Rizwana’s testimony additional highlights the dire circumstances she endured, as she allegedly said that her wounds ensuing from the abuse have been left untreated and unbandaged.