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Timely action: Police foil jirga’s try to forcibly marry off girl
- Updated: August 19, 2017
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Police on Friday foiled an try by a Jirga to marry off a lady by force and arrested members of a legislature for forcing her to marry a married cab driver.
SP Rural Shafiullah Gandapur, while articulate to The Express Tribune, said that Ehsana Bibi, 28, had eloped with cab motorist Hakim Shah of Mulagori Khyber Agency.
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“She had been told by Hakim Shah that he was unwed and had concluded to elope with him. Bibi was shifted to Khyber Agency Mulagori and was kept in a residence of Imran and Gul Haji, friends of Shah,” pronounced Gandapur. He combined that she resisted a matrimony after finding that he was already married and called her hermit to take her home.
“The hermit approached Saadullah Jan, a internal elder, who summoned a jirga that was attended by other genealogical elders,” pronounced a military officer. The jirga motionless that given a lady had eloped with a male of her giveaway will, therefore, she should be married to Hakim Shah, he said.
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The SP pronounced that when a military got breeze of a emanate they asked a domestic representative to redeem a lady from a control of Hakim Shah’s friends and palm her over to police. He combined that after a lady was handed over to a military she was constructed in justice where she refused to marry a man.
“Later, she was safely returned to her hermit and a internal elders guaranteed that she would not be spoiled in any way,” combined a SP.