Babli
8 May 2024
Swari, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan)
Shot
TDoR list ref: tgeu/tdor2024/9-May-2024/Babli
Babli was murdered by her own brother in an "honour killing".
[Editor's Note: The date of the murder was not reported; the date given here is when the FIR (police report) was filed]
PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court has granted bail to a person arrested on charges of killing his transgender [sibling] on pretext of honour in Buner district around two months ago.
A single-member bench of Justice Shahid Khan accepted bail petition of the accused, Abdur Rehman, a resident of Peshawar, on condition of furnishing two surety bonds of Rs200,000 each.
The FIR of the occurrence was registered at Swari City police station in Buner on May 8, 2024, under section 302 (intentional murder) and 311 (fasad fil arz or mischief on earth) of Pakistan Penal Code and section 15 of Arms Act. The complainant in the FIR was Sultan Said, the father of the deceased [deadname] alias Babli.
During course of hearing, the complainant also submitted an affidavit to the court stating that he had no objection if the accused was released on bail. The complainant stated in the FIR that his deceased [daughter] was fond of dancing and for the last two to three years he had been living like a transgender.
He said that the deceased had been living for the last around one year at a plaza in Swari city along with other transgender persons. The complainant claimed that his son Abdur Rehman was annoyed over the way of living of his [sibling].
He stated that through sources he came to know that Abdur Rehman along with his friends Khyber and Salman Khan visited Buner and fired at his [sibling], resulting in [her] death. He added that several transgender persons witnessed the occurrence.
“The record so furnished would reflect that the event in hand is prima facie unseen in its nature and kind. Similarly, the complainant has neither disclosed the name of those persons, who have informed him about the alleged involvement of the petitioner in the commission of offence nor he could put forward any other cogent and worth reliable information in this regard, which could prima facie speaks about the guilt or otherwise of the accused,” the bench observed while accepting the bail petition.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1844553/man-gets-bail-in-honour-related-murder-of-his-transgender-brother
