The Lahore High Court (LHC) disposed off a petition and ordered Sheikhupura police to register a first information report (FIR) against French-born Peggy Collin's former husband, Muhammad Ishfaq, and two others for her son's recovery. Justice Hamid Ali Shah on Thursday disposed of the petition.
Earlier, Collin had filed a petition she dropped since the court had ruled that it was improper to issue roaming warrants against the respondent because he was abroad. Collin said her former husband abducted her seven-year-old son, Omar Malik, in her native country, France, violating an agreement done in a French court.
She said Ishfaque and his family, were currently living in Sheikhupura where they have detained her son. Explaining the backdrop her relations with Ishfaque, she said they had met in London and fallen in love with him. They moved to Lahore where they contracted marriage on August 1, 1995. She then went to France and her husband followed her soon. She gave birth to the child on August 6, 2000 in France.
She said that in that period her husband had also attained the nationality. She said their relationship started deteriorating in 2001 after his husband took her son to Pakistan and only brought her back when she invoked the jurisdiction of French courts.
They finally divorced in February 2003 though compromised on the child's custody. She said the agreement meant both would hold the joint custody though the child would remain with his mother while father would have visitation right on weekends.
The agreement also meant that both would never remove the child out of France without each other's notice. But she said Ishfaque had removed the child on June 13 without informing her. She said she complained to French police failing to trace the child since he was never in the French territory.
She said she had received an anonymous call two days ago from Pakistan, saying her child was in the father's custody. She claimed that she was a natural and legal guardian of her child and his custody should be handed over to her to take him back to France. She has told the court to implicate Ishfaque's sister Rashida Malik and his relative Faisal Mukhtar for allegedly abducting her son.