JIT formed to investigate maid torture case

Lahore: The federal government on Friday constituted a 5-member joint investigating team (JIT) to investigate the 14-year-old maid Rizwana torture case.

A notification was issued on Friday, stating that the team was created on the recommendation of the Islamabad Inspector-General's Office.

The JIT includes the Senior Superintendent of Police (CTD) Islamabad and the SSP Investigation.  The JIT has been convened by DIG Operations Islamabad. The squad will include one officer from the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and one from the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

The JIT will look into the violence case at Police Lines Headquarters. According to the announcement, the SHO of CTD Police Station and the investigating officers in the case will assist the team with the investigation.

Rizwana, teenage maid employed by a civil judge, was reportedly taken to the District Headquarters Hospital in Sargodha in critical condition with wounds on her face, head, and body.

She was allegedly tortured by the wife of a civil judge in Islamabad. Doctors were concerned for the teen's life and transferred her to the intensive care unit (ICU) at Lahore General Hospital.

Earlier today, "So far, no court has taken notice of the incident of Rizwana's torture," Sherry stated of the torturing of the adolescent maid Rizwana.

She criticized that the adolescent girl had been subjected to "torture by the civil judge's wife."