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Bhopal woman wants to live with her 'girlfriend'
Two Bhopal girls have decided to leave their parent's home and stay together. The two have reportedly been friends for many years.
It's a love story with a difference. Two Bhopal girls have forced their families to approach the cops on Wednesday after deciding to leave their parent's home and stay together.
On Wednesday, 24-year-old Kajal and 19-year-old Nisha went missing after their parents went to the police who expressed their helplessness and advised them to consult counsellors. The girls just did not turn up at the counsellors'.
Their disappearance caps a two-year saga with all the elements of a dramatic romance including running away together, a forced marriage and massive parental opposition -- all the more extraordinary as the girls come from a working class background, have studied till only Class 8 and don't really have the means to sustain themselves.
According to the police, Kajal and Nisha belong to poor families and live in the slums in Rachna Nagar locality of Bhopal. Both their parents are labourers at construction sites.
Kajal was working in a private school as a peon.
The two have reportedly been friends for many years. Over time their friendship grew stronger until family members and neighbours suspected they were having homosexual relations.
Finally in April this year, Nisha's parents decided to marry her off to a boy in Gondia district of Maharashtra.
Nisha's parents took her to Gondia a week before the marriage was to take place. But Kajal also turned up there a couple of days before the marriage. Both the girls went missing.
