Sambhal kidnapping: As daughter flees with her lover, family scripts fake abduction story

Bareilly: A family in UP’s Sambhal, which complained about the kidnapping of father-daughter duo by some unidentified men from Khanpura village under Kudh Fatehgarh police jurisdiction on the night of August 18, turned out to be a fake kidnapping story.

According to Sambhal police, the daughter of Raj Bahadur had fled with her lover on August 17. In order to save the family’s honour, Raj Bahadur along with his family and relatives hatched a plan, and staged his own and daughter’s kidnapping by some unknown persons.

Raj Bahadur confessed to police that he had made a plan to fake a kidnapping incident along with his family members and relatives who assisted him to carry out the act. He also said that he had requested family members to create a scene to attract his neighbours and other villagers and tell them that unknown persons abducted him and his daughter at gunpoint.

In her statement to police, daughter of Raj Bahadur, Neelam, 18, said that she was in contact with one Babu, resident of Bilari, Moradabad, for five months. On August 17, the girl left her house and went with Babu and two other friends who came to pick her up from the Binri area. They were then staying in Moradabad, she said.

Sambhal SP Yamuna Prasad said that three police teams were deputed to crack the case and the cops successfully traced the father at his relatives' place in Moradabad while his 18-year-old daughter was found with Babu and two of his friends under Majhola police station in Moradabad. The case turned out to be fake. Six people, including Raj Bahadur, his wife Amarwati, son Suneel, daughter Dharamwati and two others have been arrested.

The family had earlier alleged that some unidentified men with faces covered had barged into the house late on August 18 and forcefully dragged Raj Bahadur. The family had also alleged that the daughter, who came to the father’s rescue, was also abducted at gunpoint by unknown men on motorcycles.


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