KARACHl: A judicial magistrate handed over on Wednesday three schoolgirls to their parents and directed them not to subject the underage students to domestic violence again.

The court also sent five suspects to prison on judicial remand for the alleged kidnapping of the schoolgirls, and directed the investigating officer to submit the investigation reports and medical reports of the girls as well as the suspects within two weeks.

When the case came up for hearing before judicial magistrate (East) Abdul Samad on Wednesday, police reproduced the four suspects after their two-day physical remand ended with a newly-arrested suspect.

The girls, students of class nine, were also brought before the court from a shelter home and the magistrate recorded their statements in which they deposed that they had left their homes on their own since their parents have been subjecting them to domestic violence.

They have not implicated any of the detained suspects in the case.

The magistrate handed over the girls to their parents, but directed them not to repeat the domestic violence as well as obtained a personal bond of Rs300,000 each of them as a surety.

Meanwhile, the court sent the five suspects to prison on judicial remand since the medical reports are awaited.

A case was registered under Sections 365-B (kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel for marriage etc.) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of their parents at the Saudabad police station.