LAHORE: A
three-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday rejected a police
report on a Class 10th student Amna Bibi’s self-immolation case and
directed the district and sessions judge to probe the incident and
furnish a comprehensive report within six weeks.
Police
claimed that 18-year-old Amna was never raped and alleged that she
concocted the story to implicate her family’s opponents.The bench, led
by Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, was hearing a suo moto notice
case of Amna Bibi’s self-immolation attempt in Muzaffargarh. As the
hearing started, Additional Inspector General of Punjab Police, Khaliq
Dad Malik, presented the police report, stating that Amna Bibi was not
subjected to rape.
Expressing displeasure over the police
report, the chief justice remarked how a girl could set herself on fire
only to settle scores with her family’s opponents. Justice Sheikh Azmat
Saeed observed that the police usually declared the culprits innocent
in such cases to show its performance. “Police can say that neither any
girl was there by the name of Amna nor any such incident had taken
place,” he observed.
Chief Justice Jillani called Nizam
Bibi, the mother of Amna Bibi, to rostrum and expressed his deep regret
over the incident in the Seraiki language, saying that those who had
subjected the girl to the brutal act would not escape the grip of law.
Last
month, the alleged rape victim had attempted self-immolation outside a
police station in the presence of her younger brother after a police
report helped the accused to secure bail.After hearing the arguments,
the court disposed of the suo moto notice and directed the Multan
sessions judge to submit the report within six weeks.
