The Islamabad District and Sessions Court on Monday rejected the bail application of the wife of a judicial officer in the domestic worker torture case, and ordered her arrest. The court was hearing the pre-arrest bail petition of Somia Asim, the wife of an administrative officer of the Islamabad Judicial Complex and the main suspect in the Rizwana torture case. Additional District and Sessions Judge Farrukh Fareed rejected Somia’s bail application and ordered to arrest her. The suspect is bound to join the investigation at all costs, the judge remarked. Somia’s lawyer, however, claimed that a story had been fabricated against his client. The investigating officer did not take the video of the bus stand in Sargodha, he added .

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)