CCPO, DPO summoned in Sikh woman marriage case.

LAHORE -- The Lahore High Court on Wednesday summoned the Lahore CCPO and the Nankana Sahib DPO on a petition of a Sikh woman, who married a Muslim man, alleging harassment and threat by police.

Jagjeet Kaur, at present residing in Darul Aman, stated in the petition that the police had been pressurising her to dissolve marriage with husband Muhammad Hassaan.

The local Sikh community had resorted to protests after Ms Kaur married Hassaan against the will of her family. She also embraced Islam before marriage and was given Muslim name Ayesha.

A sessions court had sent her to Darul Aman while her husband faced a case of her alleged abduction lodged by the girl's family.

During the hearing of the petition, a law officer filed a report on behalf of the ministry of human rights and the Punjab IGP. The ministry in its reply stated that it was ready to keep the woman at Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Centre for Women in Islamabad if she had any threat at Darul Aman.

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