SUKKUR: Local police detained a pregnant woman the other day along with her three-year-old child in Sukkur in frustration after failing to arrest his husband who has been booked on murder charges.
The woman, Nusrat Chachar, was transferred to a women detention centre along with her child.
The affected woman claimed that she was innocent, and was caught arrested in instead of her husband in the murder case of Asghar Chachar.
She lamented the inhumane conditions in which she and her child were kept adding that proper medication is not being provided to her.
When media reached the prison to interview the woman, police reportedly locked her in the bathroom.
Sukkur police initially said that Nusrat Chachar was nominated in the murder case, however, SSP Sukkur Amjad Sheikh later stated that the woman was taken into protective custody upon her request.