Child marriage complaint filed
Bengaluru: A 21-year-old man took a 17-year-old girl from her home and tied the knot at a hill shrine before taking her to Chikkamagaluru, following which her mother approached police seeking action. Chikkajala police have registered a case under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, and for kidnapping under BNS, and have arrested the youth. The accused maintained that he and the girl were in love and that he took her after she agreed to elope with him.
The youth brought the girl back to his house on Sept 19.
When the girl’s family visited their house to get their daughter back, the girl told her mother that she had known the youth for about a year and that he had been pressuring her to enter into a relationship with him. The mother was alerted about it by the youngster’s brother.
The mother said she had gone to a hospital that evening as she had fallen sick and returned home around 6.45pm to find her daughter missing. On making inquiries, she learnt that her daughter had been taken away by a youth residing in the same area.