A 21-year-old Hindu woman from Sindh province, Pakistan, was returned to her family’s custody after a court rejected a police request for protective custody. She was allegedly abducted, forcibly converted to Islam, and married to a man in Punjab province. Her family filed a police report, citing CCTV footage of her alleged abduction, claiming she was lured away and pressured into conversion. Police recovered the woman and requested she be sent to a shelter home, claiming she did not want to return home, but her lawyers contested this assertion. The woman testified before a magistrate, stating she wished to return to her family of her own free will and without coercion. The magistrate ruled in her favor, dismissing the police's request and allowing her to rejoin her family.