UP: Pratapgarh woman abducts minor girl to marry beau

PRAYAGRAJ: Two persons including a woman were arrested by police in Pratapgarh in connection with the kidnapping of a seven-year-old girl. The arrested persons, identified as Sarita Saroj (20) and her cousin Amarjeet (23), are residents of Raniganj and Fatanpur, respectively.
SP (Pratapgarh) Anurag Arya told reporters that one Shyamji Chaurasia had on Tuesday approached Aspur Devsara police and claimed that her granddaughter Abha (7) was allegedly kidnapped by two persons on Monday night when she was sleeping with her grandmother.
Shyamji also kept the needle of suspicion towards Sarita Saroj, daughter of Vimlesh Saroj and resident of Devgarh Kamasi (Raniganj), claiming that his daughter Indu had spotted Sarita along with another unidentified person roaming around the house on Monday evening.
He also told police that Sarita had an affair with his son Sadanand Chaurasia and was also mounting pressure on him for marriage. Following the kidnapping of the minor girl, the SP had formed two teams. A police team arrested Sarita and Amarjeet when they were carrying the girl on a bike near Telyani Pulia road.
Sarita told the police that she had an affair with the maternal uncle (Sadanand) of the kidnapped girl for the past two years since they had been studying in ITI college in Pratapgarh. She claimed since the family members of Sadanand had declined to solemnize their marriage, she along with her cousin had hatched the conspiracy to kidnap the girl with an intention to mount pressure on the family members of the boyfriend.
Sarita along with her cousin Amarjeet had kidnapped the minor girl on September 7 night when she was sleeping with her grandmother. When the father of the accused Sarita came to know, he instead of telling police had helped them to hide the kidnapped girl at his house. However, when Sarita and her father came to know that the grandfather of missing girl has lodged a complaint with the police, she along with her cousin had planned to leave the minor girl at her house but were caught by the police red handed.