Daijiworld Media Network - Puttur (SP)

Puttur, Feb 4: It is learnt that after getting the information that a Hindu girl was kept in illegal confinement in a house belonging to a Muslim family at Piligoodu in Kaniyoor village within the limits of Uppinangady police station, personnel of Uppinangady police station undertook checks in a late night operation conducted on Tuesday. The girl was escorted out of the house and sent to her parental home, it is learnt.

Some local Hindu organizations had tipped the police about the fact that a Hindu girl was kept in illegal confinement at the house of Samshuddin in Piligoodu. Based on this information, the Uppinangady police had launched an operation and summoned the girl to the police station. During her questioning, the girl told the police that she was there on her own volition and that the house in question belongs to her friend, a female. As such, her statement was obtained and she was sent with her parents.

Uppinangady police station (file photo)

It is said that the girl basically is from Chikkamagaluru. After this incident, Samshuddin filed a police complaint, accusing Rakshit, Yashodhar, Kartik, Harish, Babu, Devaraj and others of illegally entering his courtyard and asking him and his aunt whether a Hindu girl was at their home. Samshuddin said that he informed the group that his wife's friends, Sushma alias Ayesha was there at which he said the group posed death threats to him. The Uppinangady police have registered a case.