Police in Bihar are puzzled by a new trend wherein the youths are faking their own kidnappings in a bid to force the parents search for their brides at the earliest.
At least five such cases have been reported from Kaimur district of Bihar in the past few days even as the state police already battle with checking marriages-at-gun-point or “honeymoon kidnappings”, a term widely used by the police department, which is widely picking up across the state given the growing demands for huge dowry as prevalent in Indian society.
Investigators say in many cases, the boys left their homes without informing anybody in the family and returned homes with a phantasy telling their parents how they were picked by armed men, dumped in unidentified locations and asked to marry girls in captivity but somehow they fled.
In a recent incident, eighteen-year-old Manoj Pandey from Bhabhua town fled his home after his father Badri Narayan Pandey chastised him for watching vulgar CD at home. Later, his father lodged a case with the local Durgwati police station suspecting he may have been kidnapped.
Soon the police swung into action and recovered the boy from his married sister’s house at Gazipur in neighbouring Utar Pradesh state. During the interrogation, the youth told the police how he fled his home to force his parents get him married soon.
Police said youth’s twin brother was already married and he was now pressurizing his parents for his marriage as well but since he was told by his father to complete his secondary examinations first, he fled his home.
Another youth from Bhabhua, district headquarters of Kaimur, also scripted his similar kidnapping drama to force his parents marry him with the girl he loved.
“Much of our precious time is wastes on solving such fake kidnapping cases but we can’t do anything…these are part of the society”, a senior police official from the Kaimur district Uma Shankar Sudhanshu said.
What, though, has turned out to be the biggest nightmare for the state police is the increasing cases of “honeymoon” in Bihar.
In the Patna district alone, a many as 46 girls and 48 boys, all in the age-group of 12 to 17, have gone missing in the past six months and the police believe these all cases are apparently related to love marriage.
“They eloped with their lovers for marriages but their parents in a bid to save their social prestige lodged a case of kidnapping”, says Patna City’s superintendent of police Shivdeep Lande.
In the past six months this year, a total of 565 kidnapping cases have been reported with the police but the police theory is that majority of these case could have been related to “kidnapping for marriage”.
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