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June 26, 2011, 12:59am
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Re: A raped woman who cannot produced four witnesses should keep quiet about it
Loved this part:
**“****The fact of the matter is that I myself have been directly hearing cases registered under Hudood Ordinance, first as aJudge of Federal Shariah Court and then for 17 years as a member of Shariah Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court. In this long tenure, not once did I come across a case in which a rape victim was awarded punishment because she was unable to present four witnesses.”
P.S. Not a Jamaati. Thank God.
Thank you Firenze for the info on the National Commission. With respect to your quote, just because this didnt come across Usmani sahab’s experience, or he perhaps misremembers, doesnt mean that it doesnt happen. Two famous cases are those of Zafran and Safia bibi:
In Safia Bibi’s case,20 a blind girl, raped by her employers, was convicted by a lower court for the offence of zina on account of her pregnancy even though the accused were acquitted for lack of evidence. Even though Safia Bibi’s conviction was later set aside in appeal by the Federal Shariat Court the psychological impact of the earlier conviction has subsisted. More recently, in 2002, the case of Zafran Bibi made international headlines. In Zafran Bibi’s case, the complainant, an illiterate woman who had accused her husband’s brother of having assaulted her, was convicted by a lower court, once again on account of having conceived during a period when her husband was serving a prison sentence. No evidence was found against the accused brother-in-law who was, therefore, acquitted. In appeal the Federal Shariat Court set aside Zafran Bibi’s conviction