An abused Pakistani wife has claimed that her husband drugged her and had a tracking device implanted in her body so that he could stalk her, a court has heard.
Police in Ghaziabad have registered a case against her husband, named as Saleem, after the Lahore High Court ordered an inquiry into her allegations.
The woman, Sughran Bibi, separated from her husband earlier this year after he and a magistrate friend allegedly raped her after a heavy drinking session.
Bibi claimed that, shortly after she left him, her husband and an accomplice arrived at her new home and rendered her unconscious with a chloroform rag. When she woke she was in hospital with surgical stitches on her abdomen. From then on, her husband seemed to know where she was at all times and was able to follow her at will.
Justice Kazim Raza Shamsi ordered the police to register an assault case against her husband and to investigate Bibi's claims.
Women's rights campaigners said her case highlighted the need for a domestic violence act in Pakistan because the law favoured men.
Campaigner Rukhshanda Naz said men have harassed, beaten and even killed their wives without punishment.
Police investigating Bibi's claims should also question the doctors at the hospital she found herself in about "how they installed a device in her stomach without her consent", she said.
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