July 29, 2010
The 23-Year-old MBA student of Phase 3-A, Balpreet Kaur, whose father had alleged that she was abducted, denied that she was kidnapped, on thursday. She said she had gone with her lover on her own, as her parents allegedly wanted to forcibly marry her against her wishes.
Deposing in favour of Avinash Garg alias Rahul (25), a readymade garment merchant of Lehragaga in Sangrur, who was arrested for her alleged abduction, Kaur refused to go back to her home, as she claimed her parents were against her wish to marry Rahul.
In her statement recorded under Section 164 of the CrPC before the court of Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) Jaspinder Singh, Kaur reportedly said she was in a relationship with Rahul for the last five years and both of them wanted to marry each other, but her parents wanted her to marry the younger brother of her elder sister’s husband against her wishes.
She reportedly told the court that her mother has died and her father and stepmother did not approve of her inter-caste match with Rahul. “Since I wanted to marry Rahul, I willfully went along with him after I failed to convince my parents,” said Kaur.
After she refused to return home, the SDJM directed to send Kaur to Nari Niketan in Jalandhar before producing her again before the court on August 12.
Meanwhile, Rahul was also produced before the court today, after the expiry of his two-day police remand.
Since the prosecution did not seek his further custody, the SDJM remanded him to judicial custody and lodged him in Patiala Central Jail till August 12.
Admitting the bail plea moved by the defence counsel, the court issued notice to the state for reply on Friday, when the plea will come up for hearing.
On July 25, Kaur’s father Amar Singh Walia had reported to the police that his daughter, who had gone to attend her evening class from 6 pm to 8 pm at Punjab Technical University (PTU) study centre in Phase I on Saturday, had not returned home.
He said he received a call from Kaur’s mobile phone around 9.30 pm on Saturday, wherein an unidentified caller told him that they were taking along Balpreet and her scooter was left outside the Phase II gurdwara.
Next day, Walia claimed he received a ransom call of Rs 10 lakh, following which the police zeroed in on Rahul.
On Walia’s complaint, the police arrested Rahul on Wednesday, on the charges of kidnapping with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person and acts done in furtherance of common intention under Sections 365 and 34 of the IPC. But now after Kaur’s deposition, Rahul was likely to be absolved of all charges.
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