An additional district and sessions judge on Saturday sought comments from the Shahdara SHO on a petition filed by a woman seeking a case against her husband for trying to sell her to people running a prostitution business.
She submitted that her husband had been pressing her into sex work but she had always refused. She said he would beat her for refusing sex work. A few days ago, she said, she had fallen unconscious after he gave her a spiked drink.
She said when she came to senses she saw him negotiating a price for her with some people. She said she had slipped out and requested the relevant SHO to take action against her husband.
Earlier in May, the National Commission for Human Rights (NHCR) sought a report from Islamabad’s chief commissioner and inspector general of police over an application filed by a teenage woman, 18, who was allegedly forced into prostitution at a brothel in Sector I-10/1.
While sending the woman to a shelter home, the NCHR Chairman Justice (retired) Ali Nawaz Chohan sought replies from the commissioner and the IGP.
The NCHR chairman also wrote that he expects a “full inquiry on the subject.”
