KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has temporarily handed over a teenage girl, who was found to have married a boy in Punjab despite being underage, to her parents after seven months.
The petition regarding the alleged abduction of the teenager was heard today by a bench headed by Justice Muhammad Iqbal Kalhoro during which she expressed her wish to go with her parents before the court.
To this, boy named Zaheer’s lawyer urged the court to stop the Karachi girl from going abroad. At this, the SHC handed over the temporary custody of the girl to her parents against surety bonds worth Rs1 million.
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The incident happened in April 2022, when an underage girl from Karachi had gone to Lahore to get married to a man named Zaheer. However, her father, Syed Mehdi Kazmi, challenged the nuptials under the Child Marriage Act.
Zaheer and others were booked by the police for kidnapping an underage girl from Karachi. According to the police, Ahmed kidnapped the underage girl in the Al-Falah Colony area with the abetment of other co-accused and married her in Lahore. On other hand, she was shifted to a shelter home on SHC orders.
