Posted By: Aneeza Alvi
Education Level

•Uneducated: 194 (78.8%)
•Primary: 28
•Middle: 09
•Matric: 11
•Inter: 03
•Graduate: 01
•Masters: Nil
•215 women were married
•31 women were unmarried
•15 Women were pregnant after Rape/ Zina
•61 children (age from one month to 20 years) are living with 46 women prisoners
•One woman got abortion

Allegations


•Zina (Adultery)
•Second marriage without Talaq (Divorce)
•Kidnapping
•Selling and Buying of women for the purpose of prostitution
•Theft
•Dacoity
•Causing Hurt and Murder

Actual Facts

•Free will marriage
Relatives of the boys (i.e. sister, mother and other family members) were arrested and detained on the charge of kidnapping
•Refusal of forced marriage
•Personal enmity
•Single women were arrested on the complaint of neighbours
•Visit the mother’s/ relatives house without the permission of husband
•Demand of Divorce due to maltreatment by husband
•Refusal of sexual relationship
•Prostitution due to poverty and jobless of husband
•Forced by the family members for taking divorce from husband of her free will marriage.
•Oral Talaq (Divorce) and non-registration of the Talaqnama (Divorce Deed)
•Fraud by boy friend as he took her to his friends for sexual purpose
•Land dispute (usurping of women land)
•Beggar woman was raped and both the accused and victim were arrested, Police converted the rape case into Zina (Adultery)

Laws Involved:

•The Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood Ordinance VII of 1979)
Sections: 7,10,11,13,14,16,19
•The Offence Against Property (Enforcement of Hudood Ordinance VI of 1979)
Sections: 4,5,9,15,17,18
•Pakistan Penal Code (XLV of 1860)
Sections: 34, 295-B, 302, 324, 337-F, 363, 379, 380, 420

Detail of ages of the women prisoners :

•Minimum: 13 years
•Maximum: 70 years
•Age between 13-25 years: 117 women (48%)

Professions

•House wife: 167 (68%)
•Working Women: 79 (32%)
i.e. Factory workers, Farmers, Beauticians, Tailors, Handicraft sellers, midwives, beggars, Stage Dancers, Trainer in Vocational Institutes, Government Servant