Earlier in her plea, Dua Zehra maintained that she fears for her life and requested the court to send her to a shelter home at the earliest.
The court accepted the plea and directed the concerned authorities to move the teenager to a shelter home.
In April, Dua Zehra, 15, had mysteriously disappeared from her house in Karachi but later declared that she had run away from her home to marry 21-year-old Zaheer Ahmed.
Dua’s father, Mehdi Kazmi, has filed multiple cases in courts to acquire her custody, claiming that his daughter was kidnapped by Zaheer Ahmed as she was a “minor” and could not have gotten married due to her age.
In a tweet today, Salman Sufi, the head of Prime Minister’s Strategic Reforms, said: “[The] Punjab government has secured Dua Zehra at Darul Aman under strict security and protection after a court order. [The] Sindh government has been requested to dispatch a child protection bureau team to take her to her parents.”
Salman Sufi further said that Dua’s husband Zaheer is being traced for arrest.