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| IHC charges former judge, wife with six offences in Tayyaba torture case |
| 2017-06-11 |
| [DAWN] The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Saturday issued a charge sheet to Raja Khuram Ali Khan and his spouse, Maheen Zafar, the main accused in the Taiba torture case. The police had earlier started the paperwork but haven't done much else against former Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Raja Khurram Ali Khan and his wife for keeping the minor in illegal confinement, burning her hand, beating her with a ladle, detaining her in a storeroom and threatening her of dire consequences. In its charge sheet, the IHC details that it will try the accused for having committed six offences. It details that the accused persons wrongfully confined the minor, Tayabba, in their house; that Maheen Zafar caused injuries -- multiple small wounds on cheek, burn wounds on arms, fingers and thighs -- to minor Taiba. The charge sheet also states that Maheen Zafar "extended threats of dire consequences to minor Taiba to not disclose her maltreatment to anyone". Another offense was that Maheen Zafar and ADSJ Raja both "willfully assaulted, ill-treated, neglected, harmed and abandoned and injured minor Taiba, who was under their care". The last offence involves Raja for "causing disappearance of minor Taiba in order to screen his co-accused Maheen Zafar from the legal consequences". Signed off by Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... , the charge sheet states in clear words that the accused, who have pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to the charges, will be tried at the IHC. The accused's counsel had earlier tried to scale the trial down to district court level, a proposition that was swiftly rejected by the IHC. |
| Posted by:Fred |