The Sindh High Court on Wednesday quashed an FIR registered against a freewill couple when the young girl told it that she had eloped at her own free will.
A division bench headed by Justice Sajjad Ali Shah also directed the local police to release the relatives of couple. The petitioners, Nadia and her spouse, Faiz Muhammad, approached the court seeking quashing of an alleged fake case regarding her kidnapping registered against Faiz and his relatives.
The woman petitioner submitted that she eloped with Faiz on Decemebr 16 last year and solemnised marriage with him after executing freewill in Karachi. She stated that her irate family, who did not accept their marriage, lodged a case at Shahdadpur police station under Section 365-B PPC regarding her abduction against her spouse and his relatives.
As her parents wanted her to marry an old man, and that was why she was compelled to leave the home and marry her maternal cousin, she said, requesting the court to issue directions to the police to provide protection and quash a case against her abduction.
Following the court order, the IO also recorded her statement. In her statement, she reiterated that she was not abducted; instead she married Faiz by choice.
