The Dharmasala police have rescued the 21-year-old woman of Jajpur district who had allegedly been kidnapped by a youth around two weeks ago from Cuttack.
Her family members had alleged it was a case of ‘Love Jihad’. In a telephonic conversation between the woman and her mother that came to the fore earlier in the day, she was heard informing her mother that she was being tortured and kept by the abductors at a hotel near the Puri sea beach. She also said that she would be taken by her abductors to a masjid at Sutahat in Cuttack city.Notably, the young woman had gone to the VN College, Jajpur Road on December 5 to get a migration certificate.
Later in the evening, she went missing while her mobile phone was found switched off. As per a complaint lodged by her family members, one Shaik Abdul Sehmat Khan alias Bobby of Choramuhan village under the Dharmasala police limits abducted her. Khan was earlier forcing the girl to have love affair with him and change her religion.
As the girl refused to do so, Khan threatened to kidnap her. Police have arrested Shaikh Abdul Hamid Khan, father of Shaikh Abdul Sehmat Khan, for his alleged involvement in abduction and threatening parents of woman to kill them.