Sakina Muhammad Jan, a mother in her 40s, turns out to be first individual to be imprisoned under Australia's constrained marriage regulations
July 29, 2024
Sakina Muhammad Jan, a mother in her 40s, has turned into the main individual to be imprisoned under Australia's constrained marriage regulations after she constrained her girl to wed a man who later killed the 21-year-old.
As per the BBC, Jan was seen as at real fault for constraining her little girl Ruqia Haidari to wed 26-year-old Mohammad Ali Halimi in 2019, in return for a little installment.
In any case, a month and a half after the wedding, Halimi killed his new lady of the hour and is right now carrying out a daily existence punishment for the horrendous wrongdoing.
Jan, who argued not liable, was condemned Monday to essentially a year in prison, for what an appointed authority called the "deplorable strain" she had put on her little girl, the BBC revealed.
In 2013, constrained marriage regulations were presented in Australia with most extreme punishment of seven years detainment and there are a few cases forthcoming.
Jan, an Afghan Hazara outcast who escaped oppression from the Taliban and moved to local Victoria with her five youngsters in 2013, experiences persevering "sadness" over the passing of her girl however keeps on keeping up with her honesty, her legal counselors have said.
The preliminary heard that Haidari had been first compelled to enter an informal strict marriage at 15 years old yet that association finished following two years and she would have rather not hitched again until she was 27 or 28.
"She needed to seek after study and find a new line of work," Judge Fran Dalziel said in her condemning comments.
While Jan might have accepted she was acting to the greatest advantage of her girl, Dalziel said she had over and over disregarded Haidari's desires and "manhandled" her power as a mother.
Jan was condemned to three years in prison, however might be delivered following a year to carry out the remainder of her punishment locally.
In 2021, during Halimi's condemning for Haidari's homicide, a court in Western Australia — where the couple had resided — heard that he had been fierce and oppressive towards his new spouse, powerfully demanding that she embrace family tasks.
In an explanation on Monday, Head legal officer Imprint Dreyfus depicted constrained marriage as "the most revealed subjugation like offense" in Australia, with 90 cases brought to the consideration of government police in 2022-23 alone.
