A case has been registered about a girl, hailing from Pauri Garhwal, being allegedly sold off and married to a person from Haryana. As per the allegation, the girl was sexually exploited by some persons known to her husband. She somehow escaped from their clutches and registered a complaint against six persons, including two women, at SIIDCUL police station on Wednesday.
According to the SIIDCUL police, the 20-year-old girl was sold for Rs 1.50 lakh and later married off to a person in Haryana over a month ago. Police sources said that as she had been staying with her elder sister who is working in a factory in the SIIDCUL industrial area, her sister had come into contact with one Sudha and her husband Sunil who had suggested a suitable match for the girl. Later, she had got married to a person from Karnal in Haryana Tejveer Singh. The mediator Sudha had allegedly taken the amount.
Speaking to The Pioneer, SP city Mamta Vohra said, “Not just the girl’s husband but his relatives tortured the girl. The brother-in-law of the girl also allegedly raped her.
When the girl resisted, she was told about her being sold off for Rs 1.50 lakh. The girl was allegedly thrashed. They even threatened to kill her. A case has been registered. Interrogation is on.”
Police, further, said that the girl had managed to escape from her in-laws with the assistance of her relatives and come to Haridwar where she had narrated her ordeal to her sister.
Following the complaint being lodged, a case has been registered under different sections of 373 and 376 of Indian Penal Code, police added.
