Islamabad High Court to hear Tayyaba torture case

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will hear the Tayyaba torture case, where a 10-year-old child maid was found beaten and bruised from a judge’s residence in the capital.

On Friday, IHC Justice Amir Farooq gave out a verdict ordering the transfer of the case from the trial session court to the high court.

During the proceedings today, the high court dismissed a petition by known lawyer Asma Jehangir on behalf of the civil society calling for the transfer of the case to the high court, saying that they were not party to the case.

In March the Supreme Court ordered the trial court to stop hearing the case as the magistrate could be a colleague of the main accused in the case, Raja Khurram, a judge in the additional sessions court.

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Authorities had recovered the minor girl, whose face and hands bore torture marks, from the residence of Additional Sessions Judge Raja Khurram Ali Khan in Islamabad.

For months, Tayyaba suffered brutal torture at the hands of her employers. Her painful cries often shook the neighbours of her employers, who solaced the little girl by offering some food to her and with their consolations.

After having initially denied being hurt by her employers, Tayyaba later narrated her ordeal before a female magistrate. She testified that she was beaten and her hand burnt on the stove for losing the broom.

The case had caught the media’s attention prompting the Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saqib Nisar to take suo moto notice of it.

Till a verdict in the case comes out Tayyaba is in custody of an orphanage.