10-yr-old boy Fined $7k For Having S3xual Affair With Married Woman (See Photo)

 

The boy’s family paid Rs50,000 ($500) up front and undertook to pay off the remaining amount within three months.It has came to our knowledge that a jirga was held to solve a dispute regarding an extramarital affair. We are looking into the incident as jirgas are illegal.”In the Pakistani penal code, an adult male having $ex with a female child is considered to have committed statutory rape, but the law does not apply in the case of a woman having $ex with a boy.

Jirgas typically take the form of a council of male elders assigned to resolve disputes and have repeatedly come in for criticism for issuing controversial decisions, including forcibly marrying off young girls to end family feuds.Pakistan’s Supreme Court had, in 2013, declared the jirgas illegal and asked provincial authorities to clamp down on them though they still persist in rural areas as a dispute settlement mechanism for people without the means to use regular courts.