Upper Sharia court in Bauchi has sentenced a 30-year-
old man, Umar Mohammed Kandahar to death by
stoning, for impregnating his younger sister. The court records, made available to journalists on
Wednesday in Bauchi , showed that Umar was
arraigned before Upper Sharia Court Unguwar Jaki, by
the Bauchi State Shari’ah Commission, where he
was accused of impregnating his younger sister from
the same father.

Counsel to the Shariah Commission, Barrister Dayyabu
Ayuba, told the court that the suspect is married with
three wives, but forcefully had sex with his younger
sister. According to Ayuba, the younger sister was brought
to his house by their father to help take her to school,
but instead, he forced her and had sexual intercourse
with her, when she was 16 years old. The act resulted
in pregnancy and she has already delivered a baby,
contrary to section 136(1) of the Bauchi State Penal code law 2001.

When asked by the presiding Shariah court judge, the
accused pleaded guilty, but disagreed that he forced
her to have sexual intercourse; instead he maintained
that she accepted to have a sex with him. The Shariah
Court Judge, Musa Barde sentenced him to death by
stoning. Meanwhile, the accused, has filed an appeal against
the judgment before the Bauchi State Sharia Court of
Appeal, arguing that he did not agree with the
judgment.

Counsel to Umar, Barrister Sadiq Abubakar on
Wednesday, filed a motion before Bauchi State High
court number seven, asking for the bail of the
accused, pending the determination of his appeal by
the Sharia Court of appeal. He told the court that the accused family suffered
because of his detention since 2011 and asked the
court to release him on bail, to ease the sufferings of
his family.

The Presiding Judge, Justice Aliyu Baba Usman, has
fixed Monday, November 25, 2013, for mentioning of
the appeal.

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