Pune woman ‘kidnaps’ man who refused to marry her; how horror unfolded

PUNE: Seven people were arrested and a minor detained for abducting a 29-year-old man of Shindewadi in Haveli taluka on Wednesday night in an attempt to force him into a marriage with a woman who planned the whole crime. Police swung into action and nabbed the suspects in four hours.

The Lonikand police said that around 9.29pm on Thursday, the police control room received a call from a resident of Shindewadi in Ashtapur. The man said his brother had been abducted by unidentified people in a white vehicle from a spot close to a fuel station on the Pune-Nagar highway.

Senior inspector Sunita Rokade of Lonikand police dispatched multiple teams to the spot. During preliminary investigation, it was found that the victim was allegedly slapped and abducted to be married off to a woman. “We rescued him from Majalgaon in Beed district with the help of the local police. The man is a worker in a company in Koregaon Bhima,” she said.

The police identified the vehicle and the direction it took after studying the CCTV camera footage along the highway. “The victim and the woman, both natives of Parbhani district, have known each other for the last three years. The woman wanted to marry him, but he had refused. Subsequently, she decided to abduct him. The suspects were taking the victim to Parbhani,” Rokade said.

Police identified the suspects as Sudam Tathe (23), Sheikh Sohel Sheikh Afasar (21), Devidas Pajange (21), Vaibhav Shelke (22), Sarang Kakde (33), Prasad Gawli (27) and Sonali Nirwal (27), all of Parbhani.

“During interrogation, we found out that the woman had conspired with the other accused to abduct the victim and force him into marriage with her,” she added.