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'Kidnapped' at 5.30am, Telangana woman marries lover by afternoon | Viral video
Reports claimed around 5.30am, the woman and her father were proceeding to a temple when abductors forcibly took her in their car and sped away.
In a dramatic twist, an 18-year-old woman, who was allegedly kidnapped by four people in a car in Rajanna Sircilla district of Telangana on early Tuesday morning, appeared in a video in the afternoon claiming that she was not abducted and that she went on her own to marry her lover. The video has gone viral since then.
Reports claimed around 5.30am, the woman, who is a college student, and her father were proceeding to a temple in Moodepalle village in Chandurthi mandal of the district, when abductors forcibly took her in their car and sped away.
A CCTV camera in the vicinity caught the moment the alleged kidnapping. Later, a complaint was lodged with the police by her father alleging that he was beaten up by the accused before his daughter was kidnapped.
Based on the complaint, a case under IPC sections 363 (kidnapping) and 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) was registered and the police formed special teams to catch the accused and to rescue the woman, news agency PTI quoted a senior police official as saying. Two of them were caught during the course of the investigation, police said.
However, by afternoon, a video of the woman went viral on social media, in which she claimed that she was not kidnapped and that she herself called her lover, aged around 24, to take her away. They went to a temple in Jagital district, around 50 km from their village, and got married.
In the video, the woman, along with her lover, was seen in wedding attire, and she said both were in love for the last four years.
The woman said her parents were planning to marry her to another person, following which she called her lover to take her away.
She also sought protection from the police. Around 10 months ago, the woman, who was then a minor, had eloped with her lover and both had married at that time. But, as she was a minor then, a POCSO case was registered against the man and both of them were counselled by the police and she was handed over to her parents, the police said.
(With inputs from PTI)
