Mysuru: A youth from Mandya is in jail for allegedly kidnapping a lady and forcing her to marry him. The police rescued the lady a day after the grievance was filed.
Thirty-two-year-old Prathap, from a village in Mandya, kidnapped the 17-year-old from a wedding corridor within the metropolis on Thursday, took her to a sub-registrar’s workplace in Mandya in a automotive and tied the knot. He furnished pretend information to say that the lady was over 18 years of age, the authorized minimal age for ladies to marry, the police mentioned.
Prathap, a labour contractor, was arrested from his village after the lady’s household got here to know of the wedding from villagers.
The lady, alongside along with her mother and father, had come to Mysuru to attend a marriage late on Wednesday and stayed there in a single day. The lady was lacking round 10 am on Thursday.
VV Puram police filed a case in opposition to Prathap for allegedly kidnapping the lady and compelling her to marry him. The officers on the sub-registrar’s workplace have been baffled after they discovered that the doc supplied to show the authorized marriageable age was pretend, the cops mentioned.
DCP Pradeep Gunti mentioned an FIR has been registered.