A married woman was abducted at gunpoint and forced into marriage to a Muslim man, it was reported in mid-March.
Saima Iqbal’s husband Naveed Iqbal reported the incident as soon as it happened, but the police collaborated with the kidnappers and did not file a report on the incident until a week later. The police only filed the First Information Report (FIR) when Naveed and his children threatened to set themselves on fire in protest.
As a result, the police recovered Saima from her kidnapper. But instead of her being taken for a medical examination, the police listened to the version of the story from her abductors. They stated that she had accepted Islam and had had a Muslim wedding.
