A case has been registered against the wife of a civil judge in Islamabad for allegedly torturing a minor housemaid and keeping her confined against her will.
The case was filed by Manga Khan, the father of the victim, in Islamabad’s Humak police station.
The FIR, numbered 154/23, alleges that a child named Rizwana was employed at the house of civil judge Asim Hafeez as a househelp in Islamabad’s Zaraj housing society for Rs10,000 per month. Rizwana’s age has been mentioned as 13/14 in the FIR.
However, when the family reached Islamabad on July 23 to meet their child they heard the sound of her crying.
The family went inside to find Rizwana crying in an injured state. Manga says there was a wound on the back side of Rizwana’s head while several smaller wounds, infected with insects, were also visible on her head.
He also told the police that both of Rizwana’s arms and legs had also sustained injuries, and a tooth was also broken. He said that both of her eyes and her nose were also swollen.
Manga said his wife inspected the child’s body to find marks on her back and small wounds all across her body as if somebody had tried to strange her. He also found Rizwana had broken ribs.
The father alleged that when he asked the daughter about her state, she said that the judge’s wife, Somia, regularly beat her with sticks and spoons. Rizwana also added that she had been confined against her will since her arrival in the house.
At the child’s pleading, Manga took her home to Sargodha. He first took Rizwana to District Headquarter Hospital’s emergency but the doctors referred her to Lahore.
The initial medical report said that Rizwana had 15 wounds on her body including a wound on the head. It also added that her internal organs had also sustained damage.
She is currently being treated in Lahore’s General Hospital where a 12-member board had been constituted under Dr Jodat Saleem.
She is currently in the surgical ICU.
