Judge’s Wife Somia arrested
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad police arrested a Judge’s wife, Somia Asim, who tortured a minor house-maid in Islamabad last month.
A local court in Islamabad cancelled interim bail of Somia Asim and ordered police to arrest her.
Somia Asim is the primary suspect in the torture case on her minor maid, Rizwana.
Somia is the wife of the administrative officer at the Islamabad Judicial Academy. A day earlier, she rejected the allegations of torture against her.
She gave a new twist to the case and asserted that the teenage Rizwana was never a domestic worker in their household.
Somia claims that she and her husband have given Rs60,000 to Rizwana’s parents to help them.
The money was sent from her husband’s mobile account, according to Somia’s statement.
Furthermore, the woman denies the allegations of torturing Rizwana and insists that the girl’s suffering was due to a skin allergy.
“We don’t know how an allergy developed on the girl’s head,” she said.
Additionally, she asserted that Rizwana’s family had children, and she and her husband attempted to assist them by accommodating one of the girls.
Somia stated that they had not seen the wound on Rizwana’s head, and they handed the girl over to her parents at Chungi No 26 in Islamabad.
The special JIT, responsible for investigating the Rizwana torture case, has also requested a written response from the suspect Somia.
A cop martyred in gun attack in peshawar
Meanwhile, unidentified armed men targeted a police mobile in Badaber, Peshawar, martyring one cop and injuring two others.
The attackers targeted police early Monday morning in the latest attack Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province.
The province has witnessed a series of terror incidents in recent months. The is an outcome of the end of the ceasefire between the TTP and Islamabad.
