AHMEDABAD: Fortunately-ever-after tales are all about leaving the trials and tribulations behind. So, think about the incredulity on the face of a 48-year-old grandfather of two when police landed at his doorstep round every week in the past to arrest him for “kidnapping” his spouse of 27 years — the one he liked, eloped with, and constructed a house with 4 daughters.
Seems his spouse’s dad and mom had filed a case towards him after their daughter fled with the person she needed to spend her life with towards her household’s needs.
That was in Aug 1997. The cost of kidnapping below sections 363 and 364 of the erstwhile Indian Penal Code remained towards the then 21-year-old native of Rajasthan’s Ajmer, unbeknownst to the couple revelling in newly-wedded bliss in a village of Gujarat.
Spouse says we’re fortunately married, cops say should arrest man
Mehsana Police not too long ago acquired info {that a} man resembling a fugitive “kidnapper” towards whom a case had been filed virtually three many years in the past was now dwelling in that space and making a dwelling as an autorickshaw operator.
Narendrasinh Sodha from the Mehsana police mentioned a cops landed on the man’s doorstep, solely to search out the lady he’s alleged to have kidnapped dwelling with him as his spouse.
“We had no choice however to arrest the person, though his spouse mentioned they’d been fortunately married. She paraded their 4 daughters and two grandchildren as proof and mentioned that there was now not any animosity together with her household,” Sodha mentioned.
The girl’s father died some years in the past, whereas her brother doesn’t even do not forget that a case had been filed. Days after the Oct 2 arrest, a courtroom freed the autorickshaw driver on bail. An officer blamed the confusion on the household’s failure to tell police about their “reconciliation over time”.
