Forced acclimatisation case: SHC orders military to move Ravita before court
Ravita Meghwadh and her father Syed Nawaz Ali Shah. PHOTO: Express
HYDERABAD: The Sindh High Court (SHC) systematic military on Monday to move Ravita Meghwadh — a lady who her family says is underage and was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam from Hinduism and afterwards married off to a Muslim male — before a justice on Jun 22.
The directives to a DIG Mirpurkhas and a SSP Tharparkar were released by an SHC dais headed by Justice Salahuddin Panhwar.
The girl’s father, Satram alias Satio Meghwadh, in his petition filed by Advocate Bhagwandas, told a justice that his daughter, who was 16 years old, had been illegally married off to a Muslim man.
Ravita, who belongs to a encampment in Nangarparkar, Tharparkar district, reportedly converted to Islam during a khanqah in Samaro taluka of Umerkot district on Jun 6.
Hindu underage lady ‘forcibly converted and married off’ in Tharparkar
She was renamed Gulnaz after a conversion. The same day she married 36-year-old Syed Nawaz Ali Shah during a matrimony registrar’s bureau in kinship legislature Gulzar Khalil in Samaro.
Satram told a justice that his daughter was innate on Jul 14, 2001. The counsel in a petition confirmed that underneath a Sindh Child Marriages Restraint Act, 2013, a matrimony of anyone underneath 18 was a punishable offence.
The matrimony registrar has mentioned Shah’s year of birth as 1980, and inhabitant temperament label series on a matrimony certificate, though Ravita’s age has been created as “approximately 18” and her NIC series is not mentioned. Similarly, a certificate of acclimatisation to Islam also does not discuss her date of birth and NIC number, listing her age as “approximately 18″.
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“She was abducted from her residence and forcibly married to a male twice her age,” pronounced Satram, who lodged a FIR of a abduction during Nano Dandal military hire in Nangarparkar, Tharparkar 4 days ago.
The FIR lodged underneath Section 365-B of Pakistan Penal Code, that deals with abduction to enforce a lady to marry opposite her will, names 4 people: Shah (the husband), Madad Ali Shah, Umar Junejo and Sheru Junejo.
Shah and Ravita had progressing filed a petition in a SHC, requesting insurance and accusing a girl’s relatives of arising genocide threats.
A day earlier, the Pakistan Hindu Council had appealed to a Supreme Court to take suo motu notice of a arise in kidnappings, forced conversions and forced marriages of underage Hindu girls to Muslim group in Sindh.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1439620/forced-conversion-case-shc-orders-police-bring-ravita-court/