ISLAMABAD: (Parliament Times) Â The Supreme Court heard the suo moto case of 10-year-old Tayyaba who was allegedly tortured while working at the residence of Additional Sessions Judge Raja Khurram Ali Khan in the federal capital.
During proceedings, Advocate General Islamabad said Tayyaba could not be found. He added that a medical board comprising doctors from PIMS had been constituted to carry out Tayyaba’s medical examination.  After hearing this, Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Saqib Nisar said if the child is not present how can the medical examination take place, adding that the whereabouts of Tayyaba should be found and she should be presented before the court.
Chief Justice Saqib Nisar directed police to use modern methods of investigation to complete the probe by Wednesday and present findings. The chief justice remarked that pictures of the child appeared in newspapers and television. He added that two people were claiming to be Tayyaba’s mother and DNA tests may be conducted.
Earlier, two people claiming to be the parents of Tayyaba arrived at the Supreme Court. The two were identified as Zafar and Farzana, residents of Faisalabad.
Speaking to Geo News, Zafar said Tayyaba had been employed at a residence in Faisalabad for an income of Rs 34,000 annually. “Later the owner of the mansion told me that Tayyaba had been sent to Islamabad. When I asked her again (owner), she said Tayyaba was lost,” Zafar said.
According to Zafar, Tayyaba was his daughter who had gone missing one-and-a-half year ago.
Another woman from Faisalabad, Kausar Bibi has claimed Tayyaba is her daughter. Kausar Bibi said that Tayyaba’s real name is Sana and she had gone missing over a year ago.
The Supreme Court had summoned Tayyaba’s parents along with DIG Islamabad and SSP. The Advocate General Islamabad and wife of Additional Sessions Judge Raja Khurram Ali have also been summoned.
Islamabad police reached Faisalabad city in search of Tayyaba. They interrogated a woman named Nadra, who had given Tayyaba to the judge’s family in Islamabad.
According to the neighbours, police detained Nadra’s son Anwar. Intelligence agencies have already interrogated Tayyba’s family and people in the neighbourhood.
Tayyaba has mysteriously disappeared along with her father after an out of court settlement took place between the two families.
Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Saqib Nisar had taken suo moto notice of the case after the matter was settled out of court earlier this week.
The case of the alleged torture of the child maid caught the media’s attention after she was recovered from the residence of Additional Sessions Judge Raja Khurram Ali Khan.
The minor girl, whose face and hands bore torture marks, had initially denied being hurt by her employers. She told the police that she got a wound to her eye after falling from the stairs, while her hand was also burnt accidentally.
However, the poor girl narrated her ordeal after being politely inquired by a female magistrate later. She stated before the magistrate that she was beaten and her hand burnt on the stove for losing the broom.
Six human rights activists from Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar moved a joint constitutional petition in the Supreme Court on Thursday requesting it to take disciplinary action against Additional Sessions Judge Islamabad Raja Khurram who violated the law by employing a minor Tayyaba and torturing her.
The Human Rights activists filed the petition under Article 184(3) of the Constitution through senior lawyer Asma Jehangir, making Additional Sessions Judge Islamabad, Raja Khurram Ali Khan, his wife Maheen Zafar, ASJ Atta Rabbani and Interior Ministry as respondents.
They informed the court that Human Rights Ministry and Benazir Bhutto Crisis Center, which had received information from neighbours and domestic helper in neighborhood, an FIR was lodged by I-9 Police Station regarding the illegal confinement and torture on minor Tayyaba.
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