IN THE HIGH COURT OF SINDH BENCH AT SUKKUR

 

 

Cr. Misc. Application No.S-668 of 2021

 

 

Applicant:                                          Mst. Inayatan Khatoon, through Mr. Shafique Ahmed Leghari, Advocate.

Date of hearing:                                 08.10.2021

Date of decision:                                08.10.2021 

 

O R D E R

 

Zulfiqar Ali Sangi, J:              Through this application, the applicant has sought for the following reliefs:-

a)     That this Hon’ble Court may graciously be pleased to issue rule nisi by directing the Respondents No.1 to 3 for secure the safe custody of the detainee Mst. Zahidan before this Hon’ble Court.

 

b)       To record the statement of detainee and set her at liberty”

 

 

2.       Learned Counsel for the Applicant, at the very outset, submits that detenue Mst. Zahidan, aged about 25 years, is daughter of the Applicant and is in illegal detention of the private Respondents, therefore, he prays that notice be issued to the Respondents and directions may also be issued to produe the alleged detenue before this Court.

 

3.       Heard learned Counsel for the Applicant and perused the record minutely.

4.       Record reflects that applicant has filed a Criminal Miscellaneous Application No.207 of 2021 before Additional Sessions Judge, Gambat for the similar relief and the same was dismissed vide order dated 29.04.2021, which is reproduced as under:-

Alleged detained lady is present in Court and states that she had contracted freewill marriage with private Respondent Abdul Jabbar while her Petitioner mother had filed false petition for her recovery.

In view of statement of alleged detained lady who is sui-juris, her custody with the private Respondent Abdul Jabbar cannot be termed as illegal. Petition is accordingly dismissed.   

 

5.       Applicant again filed another application seeking same relief, being Cr. Misc. Application No.261/2021, which was also met with the same fate vide order dated 27.05.2021, passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge, Gambat. It shall be advantageous to reproduce the same as under:-

Earlier petitioner had filed application of like nature regarding same detainee in which alleged detainee had appeared before this Court and stated that she had contracted freewill marriage with private Respondent Abdul Jabbar while her Petitioner mother had filed false petition for her recovery, hence her custody with private Respondent Abdul Jabbar was not termed as illegal as such said petition was dismissed vide order dated 29.04.2019 but again Petitioner has filed second application for the same purpose.

 

In view of above circumstances, this petition is dismissed and the applicant is warned not to waste precious time of Court by repeating unfruitful applications.”  

 

6.       Record further reveals that inspite of dismissal of both applications, she repeated same application for third time before same Presiding Officer for the same relief and the same too was dismissed vide order dated 16.09.2021 with similar warning as passed in earlier dismissal order. For the sake of convenience, order dated 16.09.2021 is reproduced as under:-

Earlier petitioner had filed application of like nature for recovery of same detainee but when said detainee appeared before this court, she stated that she had contracted freewill marriage with private Respondent Abdul Jabbar and her petitioner mother had filed false petition for her recovery. Her custody with private respondent Abdul Jabbar being not illegal said petition bearing No.207/2021 was dismissed vide order dated 29.04.2019. Petitioner again filed similar application bearing No.261/2021 which was too dismissed vide order dated 27.05.2021.

 

In view of above circumstances, this petition is dismissed with warning not to waste precious time of this court on repeating unfruitful applications”.

 

7.       Inspite of dismissal of aforesaid applications, applicant has filed present application before this Court for the similar relief as has been sought by her filed before learned Additional Sessions Judge, Gambat. Perusal of above dismissal orders, it appears that alleged detainee was appeared before learned Additional Sessions Judge, Gambat where her statement was recorded in which she stated that she had contracted freewill marriage with private Respondent Abdul Jabbar and her mother by filing such frivolous applications for her recovery, intends to harass her husband. In such circumstances, no case for illegal detention is made out. Resultantly, this application is dismissed in limine with warning not to waste precious time of the Court by repeating similar applications.     

 

 

JUDGE

Faisal Mumtaz/PS