Pakistan: Minor Hindu woman who was kidnapped and transformed, despatched to protected dwelling by courtroom

On Thursday, October 20, a courtroom in Pakistan’s Hyderabad metropolis despatched a 15-year-girl minor Hindu woman, who was kidnapped and forcefully transformed to Islam, to a protected dwelling. She was initially not allowed to go together with her mother and father and as a substitute was despatched again to her abductor by the courtroom. The courtroom was on Thursday, nevertheless, compelled to reverse its resolution following a social media outrage and the choose ordered that she must be despatched to a protected dwelling and may meet her mother and father.

Netizens have been enraged after a video of the teenage Hindu woman crying and clinging to her mom following the courtroom’s ruling went viral on social media.

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In what transpired, the 15-year-old was kidnapped by one Shaman Magsi and three others on 12 August in broad daylight from the Fateh Chowk space of Hyderabad in Pakistan. She was allegedly forcefully transformed to Islam and married to her abductor.

Soon after, the woman’s mother and father rushed to a close-by police station to lodge a criticism of suspected compelled conversion however reportedly the police didn’t register an FIR till September.

“We are poor people. No one here is helping us. I visit the police station almost every day but they are neither helping us nor saying anything about my daughter,” the mom of the kidnapped woman stated.

In September, the police and human rights officers recovered the Hindu sufferer from Balochistan province and she or he was introduced again to Hyderabad and saved in a shelter dwelling as her abductor, now her so-called husband filed a case in courtroom in opposition to her mother and father.

He additionally offered a medical and marriage certificates in courtroom, claiming the woman was 19 years outdated. Her mother and father, nevertheless, knowledgeable the courtroom on Thursday that she was a minor and that the police weren’t cooperating with them.

The Pakistan courtroom initially accepted the wedding certificates and didn’t permit the minor to return to her mother and father and as a substitute despatched her again to her abductor, however after social media uproar over movies of the woman crying and holding her mom contained in the courtroom surfaced, the choose ordered that she be moved to a protected dwelling and a medical examination be performed.

The abductor was additionally barred from contacting the woman or her household till the medical report was validated.

Hindus in Pakistan reside in perpetual concern of persecution by the hands of the Muslim majority. News stories of Hindu girls kidnapped, forcibly transformed to Islam, and married off to their abductors have grow to be par for the course throughout the size and breadth of Pakistan however notably stark within the southern province of Sindh. Even courts and judiciary have failed in offering justice to the Hindus as that they had, in lots of instances, sided with the abductors and ordered Hindu girls to reside with their kidnappers. And not simply girls, however males too have been the sufferer of Islamic conversions in Pakistan.

Mass conversion of Hindus in Sindh, Pakistan

In July final 12 months, OpIndia reported that as many as 60 Hindus have been transformed en masse to Islam within the Sindh province of Pakistan.

Similarly, within the 12 months 2020, as many as 171 Hindu males, girls and youngsters belonging to the extremely marginalised and socio-economically backward Bhil group have forcefully been transformed to Islam within the Sindh province of Pakistan.