A 19-year-old girl was rescued from Amritsar in Punjab by a team of Rourkela police, where her marriage was fixed with amiddle-aged person without her consent.
A team of Plant site police on Thursday evening returned to Rourkelawith the victim girl. The accused woman and her associate wereabsconding.
Anju Mahanandia resides with her family at Gopabandhupalli at Rourkela under Plant site police station limits. An elderly woman, who is a relative of Anju, identified as Sarjit Kaur, had come to Rourkela from Amritsar during the month of April and had visited Anju’s house.
Sarjit had convinced Anju to send her young daughter, her elderdaughter and her elder daughter's two minor sons to Amritsar and allthe four had accordingly gone with Sarjit to Amritsar.
After reaching at Amritsar, Sarjit took them to her house andallegedly kept them captive and engaged both the sisters in householdworks. Sarjit also fixed the marriage of the younger daughter of Anjusecretly with a middle-aged person without the girl’s consent. Whenshe came to know about it, she informed her mother Anju at Rourkela.Anju soon lodged a complaint in the Plant site police station about
the plan of Sarjit. As per direction of Rourkela SP Mukesh KumarBhamo, a police team went to Amritsar to rescue the victim girl.
The Rourkela police took help from their Amritsar counterpart in therescue operation. Anju’s elder daughter and her two minor sons werealso rescued. Accused Sarjit and her husband were not present inhouse.
Plant site police station IIC SK Meher said, “The accused areabsconding and they will be nabbed soon.”