A shocking incident has come to light from Kanpur district, where a newly wed bride ran away from her husband’s house with cash and jewelry and other items a day after the wedding. Later, she called her husband on his mobile phone and asked him not to contact him anymore.
The man has now given a complaint to the police and the matter is being investigated.
The incident is of October 4, but the matter came to notice on Saturday evening after a complaint was lodged at Bilhaur police station in Kanpur district.
According to the police, Arvind, a resident of Zedpur village, has said in his complaint that two people from Taktauli village demanded Rs 70,000 from him to fix his marriage.
Then they took him to Gaya in Bihar and fixed his marriage with a girl named Ruchi. On September 30, after taking the money, both the youths took her to a hotel and showed her the girl’s photo. The next day on October 1, the marriage took place in a temple in Gaya. After marriage, he came to the village with his wife.
“When he woke up on October 4, his wife was missing from the house, along with cash worth Rs 30,000 kept in a box and jewelry and clothes given to him at the wedding,” he said in his complaint.
Police station in-charge Jagdish Pandey said that the matter is being investigated and the accused women and men will be arrested soon. PLC/GT
