Until recently, this village under Moradabad’s Mudha Pandey Police Station had never seen anything controversial. All that changed last week, when an interfaith love story ended in allegations of attempted kidnapping. And then, the bulldozers arrived.
This weekend, district authorities demolished six houses belonging to a Muslim family accused of trying to abduct a 20-year-old Hindu woman from the same village. According to the police, the action came after the accused family — including the girl’s boyfriend, the main suspect in the case — barged into the woman’s house late on June 26. A scuffle and some firing allegedly followed, leaving the woman’s 24-year-old brother, father and mother wounded.
The three wounded are currently undergoing treatment — the parents in Meerut and the brother in Ghaziabad.
The FIR registered against a total of nine people, including the prime suspect and his father, charges them under IPC Sections 366 (kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage), 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 364 (robbery, or dacoity, with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt).
Two people have been arrested in the case after an alleged shootout while a total of six policemen from Moradabad’s Mudha Pandey Police Station and Sambhal’s Bahjoi police station have been suspended for their alleged negligence in the entire affair.
This story was originally published in indianexpress.com. Read the full story here.
