Missing girl comes back, says she was remarried

NEW DELHI: In a new twist to a kidnapping case, a girl who had earlier told a trial court that she might be sold off by her father as she had married against his wishes and had then gone missing after a woman’s remand home handed her over to him resurfaced recently. The girl told the court that she had been remarried to a man in Uttar Pradesh.
Additional Session Judge Kamini Lau has issued summons to her second husband.The court has ordered police to probe if her second marriage is somehow linked to her fears of her sale. The girl from northwest Delhi made the revelation to the court in a brief deposition, which had to be discontinued and slated for March 14 due to extreme emotional disturbance displayed her. “This court is of the view that the girl be provided professional counselling through an NGO. I have enquired from the girl and she consents to the counselling,” ASJ Lau said while sending her to Nari Niketan till the next date of hearing.
An FIR was lodged in February 2011 by the girl’s father Kaushal who had claimed that his minor daughter had been kidnapped by one Prem Raj. The girl, on March 11, 2011, had written to police saying she over 20 years old and had willingly married Prem Raj. She also told police that her family members had been threatening her.
After sending the letter and before cops could track her down, the girl had appeared before a court with Prem Raj and said they had married against the wishes of her family. While maintaining that she was facing a life threat from her father, she had also accused him of trying to sell her. As she was not willing to go back home, the court had sent her to Children’s Home for Girls, which later handed her over to her father on an order of the Child Welfare Committee. After this the girl went missing and eventually resurfaced before ASJ Lau recently and told her about her remarriage.