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| Police manage divorce for vani girls |
| 2006-04-24 |
| MIANWALI: Daudkhel police arrested six people in a vani case and forced two people to divorce their would-be wives whom they were to marry under vani. Arrested people include the two vani grooms and their two brothers, vani girlÂ’s father and her uncle under Section 310A of the Pakistan Penal Code. Both grooms divorced the girls on Sunday. Earlier, the girls had got divorce through a civil court but could not marry to other grooms as clerics had refused to perform nikah and said that courts could not cancel nikah. The father of the girls had paid Rs 170,000 on April 5 through a union council nazim to the grooms in exchange for divorce, but the brothers of the grooms demanded more compensation. Sixteen years ago the parents of the girls had paid Rs 220,000 and pledged two daughtersÂ’ hands to a family as compensation in exchange of pardon in a murder case. Daudkhel police booked vani grooms Shafaullah and Ikramullah, their brothers Asghar and Lateefullah, the son of Attaullah who was killed in April 1985, Amanullah, the alleged killer of Attaullah, and his brother Sanaullah, on Saturday. After staying one night in police custody, the groom agreed to divorce the girls. The SHO in presence of notables and District Coordinator HRCP Khalilur Rehman got verbal and written divorce from the two men after paying them Rs 170,000. In April 1985 Amanullah Khan had killed Attaullah Khan over a land dispute. Amanullah got death sentence from the sessions court. Before his execution, a Punchayat decided that the convictÂ’s family would pay Rs 250,000 and two girls as compensation. Kalsoom Bibi was to marry Ikramullah and Nusrat Bibi to Shafaullah. The grooms were the sons of the deceased. Both girls went to college and graduated, while their childhood grooms did not go to school. In 2001, the girls got divorce through a civil court under the Khula Act. On March 20, the girls were going to be marry someone else, but a cleric refused to solemnise nikah. |
| Posted by:Fred |