ISLAMABAD: Additional District and Session Judge Raja Asif Mehmood has approved bail pleas of suspects in case about torture on 10-year old Tayyaba serving as maid in the house of a judge.
It is to mention here that Additional District and Session Judge Islamabad, Raja Khurram Ali Khan and his wife, Meheen Zafar were booked by the Industrial Area police on December 29, 2016 after the allegations of keeping 10-year-old maid Tayyaba in wrongful confinement and torturing her.
When Additional Session Judge, Raja Asif Mehmood took up the bail applications, Tayyaba’s father Muhammad Azam gave an affidavit through his lawyer saying that the couple was not involved in the case.
The judge repeatedly asked if they were giving this statement under any pressure following which Azam said that had no pressure and verified the contents of the affidavits before putting his signature on it.
Later, the judge approved bail pleas of both the suspects.—Agencies