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The chief justice, while hearing the Tayyaba torture case on
Wednesday, remarked that the court would like to hear the case in
detail and then determine if criminal charges can be brought against the
accused husband and wife.
The remarks were made after the challan was submitted in court by DIG Islamabad.
The
chief justice also said during the hearing that it has yet to be
determined if the case can be treated through existing laws or whether
extraordinary measures will be taken as one of the accused is a judicial
officer himself.
It is important that laws are created for children that work as household help, he remarked.
Asma Jahangir, representing various NGOs, said that every
second house employs children as domestic help and measures should be
taken that underage domestic help does not go through the same
experience as Tayyaba.
She added that like in previous
cases this time too no investigation was conducted regarding the
individuals who provide children to be used as house help.
These children are handed in as slaves and no one is conducting investigations about the matter, she argued.
She further argued that the culprits should be brought to justice.
According
to Asma Jahangir the enforcement of a number of steps that should be
taken for the prevention of such acts is the responsibility of the
parliament and not of the court.
In the previous hearing
of the case the DIG had presented the investigative report of the case
in front of the three-member bench headed by the Chief Justice of
Pakistan Miyan Saqib Nisar.
At the time the DIG had asked
for an additional week for further investigation in the case, at the
time he had said his department was waiting for the results of the DNA
test.
The next hearing for the case will be held in two weeks’ time.
