Gorakhpur police arrested an 18-year-old girl on Tuesday on charges for allegedly abducting a minor girl, after both eloped from their houses in Sahjanwa area of the district last week to marry each other.
“A week ago, two girls of Sahjanwa ran away from their homes and reached Ludhiana to marry each other. One of them is an adult while the other is a minor. On Tuesday, they were both brought back from Ludhiana where they were traced with the help of electronic surveillance,” said SO Sahjanwa Sudhir Singh told TOI on Wednesday.
The minor girl’s family filed a complaint against the adult girl, following which the police had registered a case of kidnapping against her.
“The adult girl has been sent to jail as the minor girl’s family accused her of kidnapping their daughter. The action has been taken on the basis of a case of kidnapping and not of same sex live-in partnership. No action would have been taken if both the girls were adults,” the police official said.
Both the girls study in the same college and are NCC cadets.