Human rights activists and the mother of a teenage Hindu girl who was allegedly abducted and forced to convert to Islam today demanded that Pakistan's Supreme Court set up a judicial panel to probe the issue.
Human rights activists and the mother of a teenage Hindu girl who was allegedly abducted and forced to convert to Islam today demanded that Pakistan's Supreme Court set up a judicial panel to probe the issue.
A day before the Supreme Court resumes hearing the case of three Hindu women who were allegedly forcibly converted, Sulachana Kumari contended that her 19-year-old daughter Rinkle Kumar had been abducted by persons with links to ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) parliamentarian Mian Abdul Haq and alias Mian Mithoo.
Addressing a news conference at the National Press Club, Sulachana and rights activists demanded that the apex court should set up a judicial commission to establish the truth.
A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry has directed authorities to produce three Hindu women ? who were either allegedly kidnapped or forcibly taken away? before it on Monday.
Two of the women, Rinkle Kumari and Lata Kumari, have told lower courts in Karachi that they voluntarily converted to Islam and married Muslim men.
However, Qadir Khan Mandokhail, the lawyer representing Sulachana, said Rinkle was forcibly taken away and converted.
"When she appeared before a civil judge in Ghotki (in Sindh province) on February 25, she said she had been kidnapped at 4 am and that she wanted to go back to her family," he said.
"The civil judge was scared and didn't record her statement. He sent her to police custody instead," Mandokhail said.
Mandokhail and Amar Lal, another lawyer and rights activist, said the Chief Justice should ask Rinkle whether she wanted to remain with her parents or with Naveed Shah, the man she has married.
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