Minor elopes with sister’s husband, surrenders

MUMBAI: A 17-year-old girl who was allegedly abducted from her college surrendered before the Malad police with her sister’s husband on Wednesday. The class XII student of SNDT College told the police that she had eloped with him, since the two were involved in an affair.

According to the police, on March 4, Sonali (name changed), a resident of Andheri (East), appeared for her HSC examination. Her mother was waiting outside the college to take her home after the exam. Sonali, however, did not turn up. After enquiring with the college authorities, her mother approached the Malad police with a missing complaint.
When Sonali’s elder sister’s husband Virendra Pandey, 22, who stayed with them, also did not return home, her family approached the police, and the missing complaint was converted into a first information report for abduction.
 
“We sent a team to Uttar Pradesh, the native of Pandey. But we could not trace them,” senior inspector Maruti Rathod said. Pandey lived with his in-laws in Mumbai, but he had left his wife, Anita, with his parents in UP, they said.

Rathod said that during investigation, the police learnt that Pandey had enrolled in a computer class near Sonali’s college and that they were having the affair for the the past few months.

Pandey convinced Sonali to run away with him. On March 4, she stole Rs4,000 from her house and fled with Pandey.

They first went to Matheran and then to Pune, where they stayed together. But they surrendered after they exhausted the money. After a medical examination of Sonali, Pandey was charged with rape and abduction considering that the girl is a minor, the police said.