Bihar Trainer Kidnapped, Compelled To Marry Kidnapper’s Daughter At Gunpoint

In response to the police, the kidnapping happened in Bihar’s Vaishali district.

Patna:

Gautam Kumar had just lately cleared the Bihar Public Service Fee examination to turn out to be a trainer. On Wednesday, three to 4 individuals arrived at his faculty and forcibly took him away. Inside 24 hours, he was pressured to marry the daughter of one of many kidnappers at gunpoint. 

Mr Kumar’s whirlwind journey from being a bachelor to coming into an unplanned wedlock is the newest addition to Bihar’s historical past of ‘Pakadwa Vivah’ or groom kidnapping, a phenomenon whereby single males are pressured to marry with a gun pointed at their heads. 

In response to the police, the kidnapping happened in Bihar’s Vaishali district the place Mr Kumar is a newly appointed trainer at Utkramit Madhya Vidyalaya in Patepur’s Repura. Following the incident, Mr Kumar’s household protested by blocking a highway on Wednesday evening earlier than the police initiated a search operation to find the lacking trainer.

Mr Kumar’s household pinned the blame on a person named Rajesh Rai. They’ve accused mr Rai’s household of forcibly taking Mr Kumar away and marrying him to Mr Rai’s daughter Chandni. 

Mr Kumar, who refused to simply accept the wedding proposal, was additionally subjected to bodily violence. Mr Kumar underscored a latest Patna Excessive Courtroom judgment that annulled a ten-year-old pressured marriage between a Nawada Armyman and a Lakhisarai lady, police mentioned.

In response to the police, an FIR has been registered in reference to the case and an investigation has been launched to take additional motion in opposition to the abductors. 

‘Pakadwa Vivah’ shouldn’t be unusual in Bihar. Final 12 months, a veterinarian, known as in to examine on a sick animal, was kidnapped by three individuals and forcibly married in Begusarai. Just a few years in the past, the same incident involving an engineer in Bihar made nationwide headlines. Then 29-year-old Vinod Kumar, a junior supervisor at Bokaro Metal Plant was thrashed and compelled to wed a girl in Pandarak space in Patna.