The Sindh High Court has accepted Dua Zehra’s marriage and declared Zaheer Ahmad as her husband.
Dua Zehra appeared before the Sindh High Court on Monday and testified that she had not been kidnapped. Rather, she freely contracted Nikah with Zaheer Ahmad. She stated that she was an adult, 18 years old, and had reached the legal marriage age.
After hearing Dua’s statement, the court accepted her marriage to Zaheer and ruled that Dua Zehra’s kidnapping case was closed.
Dua Zehra informed the court that she wished to accompany her husband Zaheer. She flatly refused to meet with her parents.
However, Dua’s mother begged to meet her daughter. On this, the judge stated that there was nothing he could do because the girl refused to meet with her mother. However, he later stated that if the parents wanted to meet Dua, they could.
Emotional scenes could be seen in court when Dua’s mother kept calling her daughter’s name but Dua ignored her.
The petitioner’s lawyer pleaded with the court to conduct a medical examination on Dua to determine her true age.
However, the Sindh advocate general objected, claiming that nothing of the sort was written into the law.
However, the court ordered a medical examination of Dua to determine her age.
The Sindh AG contended that it was not his province’s case, but rather a Punjab case. He claimed that the girl admitted to him that she left the house of her own free will.
The court was perplexed as to how the police recorded Dua’s age as ten years old.
The judge requested that Dua Zehra be moved to the shelter room. He also prevented the arrest of Zaheer.
