A tribal court in southern Pakistan has convicted a 10-year-old boy of having an affair with a married woman in her late 30s and ordered him to pay a fine of $7,000, police said on Tuesday. The incident occurred Monday in the remote village of Bakhrani in Sindh province, 510 kilometres (320 miles) north of Karachi. "The 10-year-old was caught having an extramarital affair with a lady from another tribe, which created bad blood between the two tribes," a local police official requesting anonymity told AFP. "The incident was later taken to a jirga (tribal court) which ordered the boy's family to pay a fine of Rs 700,000 to the aggrieved side. "The boy's family paid Rs50,000 up front and undertook to pay off the remaining amount within three months," he added. The chief police officer of the district, Umar Tufail, confirmed the incident but said the tribal court's decision was illegal and was under investigation. "It has came to our knowledge that a jirga was held to solve a dispute regarding an extramarital affair. We are looking into the incident as jirgas are illegal," he told AFP. Under Pakistan's penal code, an adult male having sex with a female child is considered to have committed statutory rape, but a woman having sex with a boy does not come under the law. The woman could however be prosecuted for sexual assault or unnatural sexual acts, lawyer Sundas Hoorain told AFP. Adultery is also a crime but rarely prosecuted. Jirgas typically take the form of a council of male elders assigned to resolve disputes. They have repeatedly come in for criticism for issuing controversial decisions, including forcibly marrying off young girls to end family feuds. In July 2013 Pakistan's Supreme Court declared the jirgas illegal and asked provincial authorities to clamp down on them. But they persist in rural areas as a dispute settlement mechanism for people without the means to use regular courts.
A tribal court in southern Pakistan has convicted a 10-year-old boy of having an affair with a married woman in her late 30s and ordered him to pay a fine of around USD 7,000, police said Tuesday. The incident occurred Monday in the remote village of Bakhrani in Sindh province, 510 kilometres (320 miles) north of Karachi. "The 10-year-old was caught having an extramarital affair with a lady from another tribe, which created bad blood between the two tribes," a local police official requesting anonymity told AFP. "The incident was later taken to a jirga (tribal court) which ordered the boy's family to pay a fine of Rs700,000 ($7,000) to the aggrieved side. "The boy's family paid Rs50,000 ($500) up front and undertook to pay off the remaining amount within three months," he added. The chief police officer of the district, Umar Tufail, confirmed the incident but said the tribal court's decision was illegal and was under investigation. "It has came to our knowledge that a jirga was held to solve a dispute regarding an extramarital affair. We are looking into the incident as jirgas are illegal," he told AFP. Under Pakistan's penal code, an adult male having sex with a female child is considered to have committed statutory rape, but a woman having sex with a boy does not come under the law. The woman could however be prosecuted for sexual assault or unnatural sexual acts, lawyer Sundas Hoorain told AFP. Adultery is also a crime but rarely prosecuted. Jirgas typically take the form of a council of male elders assigned to resolve disputes. They have repeatedly come in for criticism for issuing controversial decisions, including forcibly marrying off young girls to end family feuds. In July 2013 Pakistan's Supreme Court declared the jirgas illegal and asked provincial authorities to clamp down on them. But they persist in rural areas as a dispute settlement mechanism for people without the means to use regular courts.
KARACHI: A tribal court in southern Pakistan has convicted a 10-year-old boy of having an affair with a married woman in her late 30s and ordered him to pay a fine of $7,000 (Dh25,690), police said Tuesday. The incident occurred on Monday in the remote village of Bakhrani in Sindh province, 510 kilometres (320 miles) north of Karachi. “The 10-year-old was caught having an extramarital affair with a lady from another tribe, which created bad blood between the two tribes,” a local police official requesting anonymity told AFP. “The incident was later taken to a jirga (tribal court) which ordered the boy’s family to pay a fine of Rs700,000 ($7,000) to the aggrieved side. “The boy’s family paid Rs50,000 ($500) up front and undertook to pay off the remaining amount within three months,” he added. The chief police officer of the district, Umar Tufail, confirmed the incident but said the tribal court’s decision was illegal and was under investigation. “It has came to our knowledge that a jirga was held to solve a dispute regarding an extramarital affair. We are looking into the incident as jirgas are illegal,” he told AFP. Under Pakistan’s penal code, an adult male having sex with a female child is considered to have committed statutory rape, but a woman having sex with a boy does not come under the law. The woman could however be prosecuted for sexual assault or unnatural sexual acts, lawyer Sundas Hoorain told AFP. Adultery is also a crime but rarely prosecuted. Jirgas typically take the form of a council of male elders assigned to resolve disputes. They have repeatedly come in for criticism for issuing controversial decisions, including forcibly marrying off young girls to end family feuds. In July 2013 Pakistan’s Supreme Court declared the jirgas illegal and asked provincial authorities to clamp down on them. But they persist in rural areas as a dispute settlement mechanism for people without the means to use regular courts.
KARACHI: A tribal court in southern Pakistan has convicted a 10-year-old boy of having an affair with a married woman in her late 30s and ordered him to pay a fine of $7,000, police said Tuesday. The incident occurred Monday in the remote village of Bakhrani in Sindh province, 510 kilometers (320 miles) north of Karachi. "The 10-year-old was caught having an extramarital affair with a lady from another tribe, which created bad blood between the two tribes," a local police official requesting anonymity told AFP. "The incident was later taken to a jirga (tribal court) which ordered the boy's family to pay a fine of Rs700,000 ($7,000) to the aggrieved side. "The boy's family paid Rs50,000 ($500) up front and undertook to pay off the remaining amount within three months," he added. The chief police officer of the district, Umar Tufail, confirmed the incident but said the tribal court's decision was illegal and was under investigation. "It has came to our knowledge that a jirga was held to solve a dispute regarding an extramarital affair. We are looking into the incident as jirgas are illegal," he told AFP. Under Pakistan's penal code, an adult male having sex with a female child is considered to have committed statutory rape, but a woman having sex with a boy does not come under the law. The woman could however be prosecuted for sexual assault or unnatural sexual acts, lawyer Sundas Hoorain told AFP. Adultery is also a crime but rarely prosecuted. Jirgas typically take the form of a council of male elders assigned to resolve disputes. They have repeatedly come in for criticism for issuing controversial decisions, including forcibly marrying off young girls to end family feuds. In July 2013 Pakistan's Supreme Court declared the jirgas illegal and asked provincial authorities to clamp down on them. But they persist in rural areas as a dispute settlement mechanism for people without the means to use regular courts.
Taimoor Banglani was could guilty by a tribal council of having an affairThe ten-year-old boy was accused of infidelity with the girl despite his ageHis family was ordered to pay the victim's family 4,400 in compensationThe tribal jirga gave the family three months to complete the payments A 10-year-old boy has been convicted of having an affair with a girl following a tribal court in rural Pakistan, with his family ordered to hand over 4,400 in compensation. The youngster, named as Taimoor Banglani, was tried at a special court, known as a jirga, who found him guilty of engaging in an extramarital affair, despite his young age. The court ordered the boy's family to hand over 330 immediately, with the remaining cash due within the next three months. The jirga was held near the town of Tangwani in Central Pakistan after a complaint was made against the boy The jirga, file photograph, is a tribal court controlled by one of the village elders to dispense justice in Pakistan According to a report on Dawn.com, the boy was brought before the jirga after being accused of having the affair by a rival family. Both families live in a village near Tankwani, in Pakistan's Kandhkot-district. The jirga was headed by tribal elder Jehangir Banglani who has previously been involved in several highly contentious decisions. In 2014, Banglani settled a dispute between a police officer who allegedly murdered his two wives after he accused them of having an affair. In a controversial decision, the jirga ruled that the man accused of having the affair should offer his two daughters, aged five and 15 to the police officer as recompense so the girls could marry his sons. In addition to handing over his two daughters, the man was also ordered to pay the police man almost 8,000. Then the man, Sanullah Banglani, in protest against his sentence tried to set himself alight the local press club. He was later charged with attempting suicide. According to a report in the Express Tribune, Sanullah claimed: 'Instead of hearing my plea and providing me justice, the police have arrested me and have filed a case against me' Share or comment on this article
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