A 15-year-old girl from south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj was rescued recently after being sold off as a bride to a man in Haryana by her mother. The girl’s 21-year-old step-sister informed her grandparents who told the police about the incident.
The man who had bought her was arrested from Rohtak.
Senior police officers said that the 35-year-old man from Rohtak has been arrested for ‘buying’ the bride for Rs 70,000. He has been booked for kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person (Section 365 of the Indian Penal Code) and kidnapping and abducting or inducing a woman to compel her marriage (366).