Two youths from Punjab were arrested and forwarded to court on Wednesday, while they were trying to take a minor girl with them by train from Rourkela.
According to sources, the minor girl is a resident of Sector-1 area. She had come in contact with one of the arrested youths, identified as Harjit Singh from Hoshiarpur, Punjab over social media. She had fallen in love with him. Harjit allegedly had told her that he and his cousin brother Gaganjit Singh were coming to Rourkela on November 22 to take her to Punjab and he (Harjit) would marry her there.
Accordingly the duo (Harjit and Gaganjit) had reached at Rourkela on November 22 and Harjit had contacted the minor girl. As per plan, on Tuesday morning the minor girl had gone out of her house to meet her lover. When the family members of the girl did not see the girl in the house, they lodged an FIR in Sector-3 police station on Tuesday morning.
Police started tracking the mobile of the minor girl. Harjit, Gaganjit and the victim girl were on Tuesday evening waiting for a train to Punjab when police reached there and rescued the minor girl. On Wednesday, police arrested Harjit and Gaganjit and forwarded them to court.