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Sanjay Yadav
Gurugram, June 13
A 19-year-old woman married her girlfriend after running away from home.
The two women are from Jhajjar district, were classmates and had been together for seven years.
On June 10, a Pataudi-based man filed a complaint with a local police station, claiming his daughter was missing and accused one of his classmates and family of kidnapping.
An FIR was registered at the Pataudi Police Station under Article 346 (wrongly confinement) of the IPC. Police found the women in Sohna on Saturday.
“We traced the girl to Sohna. They arrived at the court and recorded the statement that they loved each other and got married according to Hindu traditions in a temple. The court allowed them to leave, ”said ASI Ajit Singh, the investigator in charge of the case.
The women are said to have studied together up to grade X and are said to have expressed their desire to marry in front of a family who have refused to accept the union for fear of societal pressures.
The duo then decided to go ahead and get married. The Pataudi-based family created drama in court by trying to reason with their daughter, but the two women left.
“We are going to an undisclosed address for our safety. We had tried to reason with our family several times but they didn’t understand so we had to run away, ”one of the women told The Tribune.
The family is afraid of the wrath of various social groups and saffron. Contacted, the father of a woman did not respond. Police say a woman is a student while another worked for a private company.
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