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Islamabad High Court allows Indian national Uzma to return home
New Delhi, May 24 (IBNS): Islamabad High Court has allowed Indian national Uzma, who was forced to marry a Pakistani national, to return to India, media reported on Wednesday.
According to media reports, the Islamabad High Court has asked the police to provide security to her up to Wagah, on the India-Pakistan border.
The Indian government through the High Commission of India provided her necessary consular and legal assistance to her after she sought shelter in the Indian High Commission in Islamabad
It has been alleged that she was married to Pakistani national Tahir recently
The woman then recorded her statement in the Court of Judicial Magistrate First Class in Islamabad, as per local legal requirement.
"In her statement, she said that she was sedated, assaulted, tortured mentally and physically in Pakistan by a Pakistani man who had met her in Malaysia, invited her to visit his family in Pakistan and provided the requisite sponsorship letter to the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi for her visa. She also stated that the same man also made her sign Nikah Namah at gunpoint," read the statement.
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