Bhadohi, April 17 (HS): A married

man and his parents have been charged for allegedly abducting a girl student

from Kolkata, forcing her to convert to another faith, and then marrying her, a

top police officer said on Friday. According to the official, Bhadohi police

moved when the father of a 23-year-old girl attended a Kolkata court on March

24 to file a FIR against a family from Uttar Pradesh.

On Thursday, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Harkiran Kaur filed a FIR

against 31-year-old Shibu Ansari, alias Shaib, his father Sohrab Ansari, and

his mother Rukhsana, all of whom live in Khamariya Nagar within the

jurisdiction of Aurai police station, according to Superintendent of Police

(SP) Abhinav Tyagi. Anjali, a 23-year-old third-year BCom student at Bangabasi

College in Kolkata and instructor at St Xavier's School, went missing on

February 25.

After the search, the girl's father, Durga Prasad Sav, a Khamariya Nagar

resident who has lived in Kolkata for several years, filed a complaint at the

Beliaghata police station in Kolkata on February 28, according to SP Tyagi. On

March 6, Anjali's parents went to Khamariya and confronted Shibu's parents

based on location-based clues uncovered during the Kolkata Police probe,

according to a police officer.

Anjali's parents subsequently discovered that Shibu had married their

daughter and departed the area, he explained. Shibu then reportedly contacted

Anjali's mother and threatened to kill the family if they filed a complaint,

according to Tyagi. Durga Prasad Sav, Anjali's father, said in his plea that

Shibu and his parents planned to kidnap Anjali from Kolkata by fraudulently

giving her a job. They brought her to an unknown location following their

marriage, according to the report.

According to Sav's petition, Shibu is already married and has a kid, and he

is constantly threatening the family's lives.

According to the SP, a case was

filed on Thursday evening to comply with the court's instruction. The accused

have been charged under several sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS),

including 87 (kidnapping, abducting, or inducing a woman to compel her

marriage), 142 (wrongfully concealing or keeping a kidnapped or abducted person

in confinement), 82(2) (marrying again while spouse is alive), 83 (fraudulently

going through a marriage ceremony), 351(3) (criminal intimidation), and 352

(intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace).

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi