Four persons, including a woman and a handicapped man, have been sent to three-and-a-half years in jail by a Delhi court in connection with abduction and wrongful confinement of a girl with a purpose to get her forcibly married.
Additional Sessions Judge Narinder Kumar awarded the jail term to Delhi resident Ramesh and Haryana residents Aruna Gautam, her son Rahul and Karan Singh, a double-leg amputee who had planned to marry her.
The court said the prosecution has proved that Ramesh had taken away the 18-year-old girl in January 2011 from LNJP Hospital here by deceitful means and then left her at Aruna’s house in Ambala for the purpose of marriage.
“This court finds that prosecution has established on record that… Aruna Gautam and Rahul in furtherance of common intention of Ramesh kept the girl in wrongful confinement knowing well that she had been abducted and subsequently he, Aruna and her son Rahul took her to the house of Karan and left her there for the purpose of her marriage with Karan, without her consent….
“Karan wrongfully confined her knowing well that she had been abducted, and with an intent to marry her against her consent,” the court said.
As per the police, the incident took place on January 10, 2011, when the girl and her boyfriend had come to Delhi to get married and also for her treatment at LNJP Hospital.
Ramesh abducted the girl from the hospital when she was alone on the pretext of taking her to her boyfriend and instead took her to Ambala at Aruna’s residence, it said.
From Ambala, Aruna and Rahul took the girl to Karan’s residence in Karnal and they left her there for the purpose of marrying her off to him.
The girl was rescued by the police from the house of Karan on January 24, 2011.
During the trial, the accused claimed that they were falsely implicated in the case.
The court held all the four accused guilty of wrongfully confining the girl who was abducted by Ramesh. It also convicted Ramesh of the offence of abducting.