Agra: Man carrying reward of Rs 10,000 for eloping with teenager arrested

Arvind Chauhan / TNN / Updated: Oct 15, 2019, 20:09 IST

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More than seven months after a 25-year-old man eloped with teenager girl in Etah district, he was arrested on Tuesday morning by local police.

Agra: Man carrying reward of Rs 10,000 for eloping with teenager arrested

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AGRA: More than seven months after a 25-year-old man eloped with a teenager girl in Etah district of UP, he was arrested on Tuesday morning by local police.
Mukesh - a resident of Saungra village of Pilua police jurisdiction - was booked in February under IPC sections 363 (kidnapping), 366 (kidnapping to compel woman for marriage) and 376 (rape) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
According to police, the accused was a neighbour of the 16-year-old victim. On February 25, the two were found missing. After which girl’s parents lodged an FIR against three person, including Mukesh’s friend Bunty Singh, who helped the duo to elope. Bunty was arrested in June month, while girl was recovered in March month.
Atul Kumar Gautam, station house officer of Pilua, said, “The accused was absconding after the FIR, hence a Rs 10,000 reward was declared on him. We arrested the accused from his home on Tuesday.”

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Arvind Chauhan is an experienced journalist with a demonstrated history of working in the newspapers industry as well as for the social media wing as digital content creator. He has covered subjects like railways, aviation, defence, energy, health, real estate, minority affairs, women and child development, crime, customs, telecom, district court, district administration, roads and infrastructure, armed forces tribunal, and regional politics across Uttar Pradesh. He began his career in Lucknow, and has done reporting in West Uttar Pradesh. He has won the Times Scribe Award four times including for busting fake news, and extensive coverage on Covid orphans. He graduated with a journalism degree from Times School of Journalism and BA (Honors) in English from Lucknow University.

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