In the hearing for the teenage girl who mysteriously went missing from Karachi 10 days ago and was recovered from Okara, a court of Lahore turned down the police’s request to shift Dua Zehra to Darul Aman (shelter home), saying the girl is “free to go anywhere she wants”.
Lahore Model Town Court’s Judicial Magistrate Tasawar Iqbal overruled the police request to shift Zehra to Darul Aman after she was presented before the court hours after her video statement that surfaced online on Tuesday in which she claimed that she had married the boy, Zaheer Ahmed, of her own free will and she should be allowed to live freely.
Before the judgment, the judge sent the girl’s husband outside the courtroom to record her statement.
While giving her statement at the court, Zehra said that she was 18 years of age, came from Karachi to Lahore willingly, no one had kidnapped her, and she did not want to go to Darul Aman.
“I am safe, my life is not in danger,” the girl stated, following which the judge ordered that she be allowed to go “wherever she wants”, and the police let the couple go free.
Dua Zehra Case
Dua Zehra had gone missing from Al-Falah area of Karachi on April 16, after she went out of her house to throw thrash.
According to her father, they live on the first floor of the building and his daughter had gone down to the ground floor to dump the trash but didn’t return.
Later, her recovery was confirmed by the Lahore police in a Twitter post in which they stated that saying the teenager and her husband was currently at the District Police Office (DPO) in Okara. She was then taken to Lahore and presented before a judicial magistrate, who turned down the police request to shift Zehra to Darul Aman (shelter home).