ISLAMABAD: A district and sessions court in Islamabad on Tuesday granted pre-arrest bail to a woman (the wife of a judge) in a case pertaining to the alleged torture of an underage domestic help in the capital.<\/p>\n
Somia Asim, the suspect, was booked after she was accused of severely torturing a teenage maid, who was moved to the Lahore General Hospital in critical condition on July 24.<\/p>\n
According to the girl\u2019s medico-legal certificate (MLC), she had \u201claceration on head from vertex, on forehead, right side above eyebrow, swollen upper lips, laceration under upper lip on right side, broken left incisor and left canine, laceration on check, nose bleed, laceration on left side of vertex, multiple bruises on lower leg, fracture on right forearm, swollen left and right eyelids, bruise on right skull, laceration on back, multiple bruises on back and attempt on strangulation.\u201d<\/p>\n
After showing reluctance, Islamabad police had registered a first information report in the case on July 26. Initially, the police booked the judge\u2019s wife for criminal intimidation and wrongful confinement, without mentioning physical torture in the FIR. However, eight more sections \u2014 including murder \u2014 were added to the FIR a day earlier.<\/p>\n
On July 28, the Lahore High Court had granted protective bail to the judge\u2019s wife till August 1.<\/p>\n