Another free-will marriage case sent to trial court.

KARACHI -- The Sindh High Court has directed the police to file an investigation report before a trial court so that it could decide the matter pertaining to the free-will marriage of a girl from Khairpur.

The girl, Fizza, along with her husband had approached the SHC stating that she had not been abducted, but contracted marriage of her own free will but her family lodged a case at a police station in Khairpur against her husband and his relatives.

Citing police officials concerned and relatives of the girl as respondents, the petitioners sought directives for the police to quash the FIR, not to harass them and also pleaded for protection.

A lawyer, representing the family the girl, argued that Fizza was an underage girl and her marriage was not permissible in terms of the Sindh Child Marriages Restraint Act, 2013.

He requested the bench to pass an order accordingly.

However, the bench observed that the petition was only to the extent of quashment of the FIR registered at the Shaheed Murtaza Meerani police...

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