Islamabad police have registered a case against the wife of a civil judge for allegedly torturing a teenage girl working as a maid at her home, it emerged on Tuesday.
In a tweet late on Monday night, Islamabad police said that a case had been registered on the complaint of the victim’s father.
“Efforts are being made to arrest the accused,” police said, adding that the case would be investigated on merit. “All legal requirements will be met. The law is equal for all,” police said.
The first information report (FIR) was registered at Islamabad’s Humak police station on the complaint of the victim’s father, Manga Khan.
The complaint was registered under sections 506 (criminal intimidation) and 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
Khan said that he was a resident of Sargodha and had sent his teenage daughter, between 13 to 14 years of age, to work at the civil judge’s home in Islamabad for a monthly salary of Rs10,000.
He said that on July 23, he, his wife, and a relative went to visit the child but when they entered the judge’s home, they heard her cries coming from a room.
“All three of us went to the room and saw that my daughter was injured and was sobbing. When I saw my daughter, there was a wound on the back of her head as well as other small wounds which had become infested with maggots,” Khan said.
He said that the child’s arms and legs were also injured and one of her teeth was also broken. He further said that his daughter’s eyes, her lips, and her entire face were swollen.
He said that there were also wounds on his daughter’s back and her ribs were broken while there were small wounds all over her body.
He said that there were also bruises around his daughter’s neck as if someone “used to strangle her”.