Tayyaba torture case: Blood samples of alleged parents of victim obtained
Police officers have failed to present the young maid before the court.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – The administration of PIMS Hospital has obtained blood samples of alleged parents of minor Tayyaba for DNA test.
According to details, Kausar Bibi belonging to Moza Karam Kaathia village near Kamalia and Faisalabad’s Farzana and her husband Zafar have given their samples.
The child was reportedly employed by a additional session judge in Islamabad and initially told police she’d fallen down the stairs and burnt her hands by accident, Pakistani media reported.
But in a later statement she said that she was beaten and that her hands were burned on the stove by the judge’s wife, reports have said, citing police.
Authorities then placed the girl into a women’s shelter.
But on Tuesday the child’s father told authorities he forgave the judge and his wife, and that his daughter’s story was untrue, so no charges were brought.
The girl’s parents were then reported to have taken her from the women’s shelter and disappeared with her.
The widely-publicised images of her injuries caught the attention of the Supreme Court, which issued a motion initiating a legal case.
Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar demanded the child be found and a full investigation held by next Wednesday.
Earlier today, Supreme Court (SC) has sought complete investigation report over Tayyaba torture case in three days.
The two-member bench headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar heard the case.
Granting time to additional session judge’s wife Maheen Zafar, the court has ordered to submit reply till Wednesday.
DIG Police Islamabad has been directed to constitute a high level investigating committee and to present the minor maidservant and her real parents in next hearing.
Current figures detailing the precise scale of child labour are not available. The last official national survey was carried out in 1996, and put the number of working children at 3.3 million.
According to Human Rights Watch, approximately 13 percent of children aged 10 to 14 in Pakistan are engaged in child labour.
There are no surveys on domestic child labour specifically, but Islamabad-based child rights NGO Sparc (Society for the Protection of the Rights of Child) estimates that some 15.5 million children are involved in domestic work.
