Daijiworld Media Network - Mysuru (SP)

Mysuru, Jan 8: Police personnel attached to Lakshmipuram station here have succeeded in unravelling a case of abduction of a Mangaluru girl in connection with her inter-religious marriage. Although the girl in question is yet to be traced, Amanulla (25), and his brother, Zulfikar (28), both of whom are from Mysuru, and Shaukat Ali (25) from Madikeri stand arrested for their involvement with this crime. The police said that the main plotter of this abduction drama is yet to be arrested, and that the trio, after abducting the girl, had handed her over to some people.

This gang of three had attacked Shivaraj (22), son of Gangadharaiah from Mangaluru, and abducted his wife, Aleema Shaheen (22), daughter of Abdul Hamid from Krishnamurtypuram on December 4, 2015. The police are yet to gather accurate information about the people to whom the lady was entrusted to after abduction. Assistant commissioner of police here, C Mallik, said that investigation is progressing in the case.

Based on a complaint filed by Shivaraj about the abduction of his wife, the policemen began investigation and arrested the gang which kidnapped the lady. Police sources have gathered information that the gang was contracted to abduct the lady for a remuneration of five lac rupees.

The couple living in Ashokapuram fourth cross here had visited a mall on JLB Road on December 4 for shopping. When the couple was returning home in a two-wheeler, a car which came from behind hit the vehicle. As soon as the couple fell to the road, five persons who got down from the car attacked Shivraj with sharp weapons. The gang then abducted Aleema. A case of abduction and murder attempt was thereafter filed by Shivaraj in Lakshmipuram police station here.

Shivaraj and Aleema, who were classmates in an engineering college, had become friends. In course of time, both started to love each other and decided to marry. As the marriage proposal faced stiff resistance from the girl's family and locals, the lovers came to the city and married in Lord Venkataramana Swamy temple at Vantikoppal here.

After learning about this marriage, family members of Aleema had filed a case of abduction in a police station at Mangaluru. The couple presented themselves in the police station and stated that they had married on their own accord. Because of threat to life they faced at Mangaluru, they started living in the city. After they filed application for registration of marriage at the office of the sub-registrar at Kuvempunagar in the city, the girl's parents filed objection, claiming that their daughter had already been married. The sub-registrar therefore decided not to register the marriage, which was questioned by Aleema in high court. She denied her father's claim that she had married once earlier. The high court had, after hearing the case, instructed the sub-registrar o register this marriage.