Crime file: DSP ‘marries’ minor, arrested; Kidnapping, honour killing and more

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Crime file: DSP ‘marries’ minor, arrested; Kidnapping, honour killing and more





DSP ‘marries’ minor, arrested
DC/Amita Verma
 
Lucknow: A deputy SP, posted as security officer in the secretariat of Chhattisgarh, was arrested in Balua police station of Chandauli district in UP for allegedly marrying a minor girl.
 
Mahendra Yadav, Station officer (SO) of Balua police station, confirmed that DSP Pradyumna Yadav has been arrested under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act on Monday evening. This was the DSP’s third marriage.
 
The SO said that a local resident informed him on Monday morning about a 52-year-old man forcibly marrying a 13-year-old girl at Keenaram ashram at Ramgarh village.
 
The police team went to the village at the stipulated time and found that the DSP was marrying the minor girl.
 
The school documents of the girl confirmed that she was born on July 15, 1999. An identity card found from Pradyumna Yadav showed that he was a DSP promoted from the post of inspector and was posted as security officer at Chha-ttisgarh secretariat. He belonged to Utri village of Balua area.
 
During interrogation, the DSP revealed that his first wife had died and his second wife had separated from him several years ago. He admitted that he has a daughter and a son, both of whom are married.
 

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