Subodh Kumar Yadav, mukhiya of the village, said it was a case of 'Pakadua shaadi' (forced marriage), in which men are abducted and married off to women against their will, and that was the reason Neelu Kumari's in-laws were not taking her to their home even after two years of marriage.
Bhopal: The victim Ganesh Shankar said the girl and her family members clicked some photographs, on the basis of which they were demanding Rs 40 lakh from him. They also threatened to implicate him in a false case if he failed to give money.
Sidharth Malhotra and Parineeti Chopra's Jabariya Jodi is based on Pakadwa Vivah that is rampant in Bihar.
His claim came a day after the provincial Minorities Affairs Minister Hari Ram Kishori Lal directed authorities to register an FIR of the abduction and provide protection to the girl's family.
According to the latest statistics from the UK's Forced Marriage Unit (FMU), India ranks fourth among countries where victims are taken to be forced into marriage after Pakistan, Bangladesh and Somalia. In 2017, 82 male and female victims of forced marriage supported by the FMU were from India.
The woman, an engineer by profession, alleged that she was forced to discontinue her studies in January this year as her parents forced her to marry against her wishes.
"Pakadua Vivah is rampant in Bihar. About 3,405 youths have been kidnapped for forced marriage in the state. In most of the cases, Pakadua Vivah was solemnised at gun point or threats to their life and their families," a police official said.
Incidents of abducting girls for forced marriage are not very rare, but what came into light in Bihar’s Patna is exactly opposite.
Uzma, who belongs to New Delhi, and Ali "fell in love" in Malaysia, after which she travelled to Pakistan on May 1, via the Wagah border.
In a shameful incident that sheds light on the scourge of child marriages in the war-battered Afghanistan, a six-year-old girl was forced to marry a 55-year-old man after her father allegedly sold her in exchange for a goat.
she was sold twice, raped multiple times, forcefully married, dispossessed of her two children and sold to a dance bar
Begusarai: You must have come across many tales of knights abducting beautiful princesses and living happily ever after but here we are recounting an altogether different but real story.Priti Kumari, a resident of Bharoul village
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