Ghaziabad: An 80-year-old woman, a resident of Modinagar, has accused an employee of the child welfare committee of seeking a bribe of Rs 50,000 for getting her granddaughter-in-law released from a
shelter home.
The
CWC had admitted the girl to a shelter home in March this year after she was found to be a
minor at the time of her marriage last year.
The complainant on Monday filed a complaint with the district magistrate’s office, stating that the girl attained 18 years of age on September 22 and when her 23-year-old grandson subsequently approached the CWC officials, an employee demanded Rs 50,000 bribe on behalf of the senior officials. The youth claimed to also have an audio recording of the entire conversation. CWC has denied the allegations.
The octogenarian’s grandson had married the girl on September 20, 2017, and according to her Aadhaar card details, she was 18 years old. The youth, who works with a private firm in
Ghaziabad, said, “The girl is from a different community and lived with her grandfather in Muradnagar. We knew each other and got married after she came to know that her grandfather had fixed her marriage with some elderly person in lieu of Rs 5 lakh.”
After six months of their marriage, her grandfather filed an FIR against the youth for kidnapping his minor granddaughter. He had produced the girl’s class X certificate as proof according to which she was a minor then. The juvenile justice court subsequently sent the girl to a shelter home.
