2 weeks on, NCW sends team to look for Imrana

Girija Vyas, chairperson, NCW, told Express that “tracing and speaking to Imrana is very important before we can find out what should be done to help her.’’ She claimed that the district magistrate and the Superintendent of Police were trying to locate Imrana, who, according to them had been untraceable after a local panchayat’s decision that she cannot live with her husband and must marry her father-in-law.

Vyas said the commission was worried about Imrana’s safety and wanted to ensure that she gets ‘‘justice under the criminal procedure code.’’ Sources said that NCW was also consulting legal experts on how to tackle the clash between criminal justice and the Islamic jurisprudence (the shariat) in this case.

In case Imrana is traced, Abrar and Konwar would meet her and assure her of all help. Vyas said the commission was concerned about Imrana and her five children.

‘Her fate can’t be decided by ancient juristic wisdom’

New Delhi: Criticising the Darul Uloom Deoband’s edict that Imrana, who was allegedly raped by her father-in-law in Muzaffarnagar, cannot live with her husband, Islamic Law expert Tahir Mahmood on Tuesday said her life can’t be decided by “ancient juristic wisdom.” “That a woman subjected to sexual indignity by any of her husband’s ascendants or descendants becomes ‘prohibited’ for him was a rule of worldly wisdom evolved by religious jurists of Arabia over a thousand years ago,” Mehmood, member of the National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities, said. —PTI