An Additional Session Judge in Islamabad has approved the bail request of Somia Asim, who allegedly beat up a minor house help and kept her confined against her will.
Additional Session Judge Muhammad Haroon approved her bail on Rs100,000 surety bond.
Somia was arrested from the court premises on August 7 after a district and sessions court rejected her bail plea in the maid torture case and ordered the police to take her into custody.
Manga Khan, father of the maid, filed a complaint saying that he sent her daughter Rizwana Bibi, 13, to the house of the civil judge at the Zarta Housing Society in Islamabad to work at a salary of Rs10,000 per month.
“He along with her wife, and brother-in-law came to Islamabad to meet her at the house of the judge and found the girl crying and in deteriorated condition,” it said.
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The victim was badly wounded, the complaint said, adding that her ribs were also fractured and marks of injuries were found on her back.
When Khan asked her daughter about the abuser, Rizwana said that she was allegedly tortured by the judge’s wife on a daily basis and the employer also refused to give her food at times. She said she was detained in a room.
Somia was produced before a court on August 8 which sent her to jail on judicial remand while rejecting the police request for the physical remand. Two days later, Judicial Magistrate Shaista Kundi rejected the post-arrest bail petition of Somia, a civil judge’s wife.
Rizwana’s initial medical report showed that her blood pressure was 41/70 while HB levels in the blood were at 8 when she was brought to Lahore’s General Hospital.
The medical report added 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.
The medical examination also revealed that Rizwana was suffering from sepsis and both her lungs were affected while she was also reported to be poisoned.
