Man helps wife kidnapped & sold to lodge police plaint

Nagpur: Ashok Sisodiya, a native of Shahjanpur in Madhya Pradesh, was stunned when his wife told him, around a year after their marriage in July 2017, that she had been kidnapped and married off to him. The husband was shocked to hear that the Rs75,000 he paid to an agent had been used to ‘purchase’ the woman from Nagpur, and she was threatened to ensure she married him.
Sisodiya decided to expose the racketeers involved in intoxicating, kidnapping, and then trafficking his wife from Nagpur to Shahjanpur via Ujjain for the marriage. Sisodiya, a tailor, took his wife to Dopara police station at Shahjanpur and lodged a complaint.

Dopara police contacted their counterparts at Gittikhadan police station after noting the address revealed by the survivor. The Gittikhadan police already had a missing complaint for the woman, and alerted Dopara cops that the family was searching for her.

Gittikhadan police told Dopara counterparts to send the woman and her husband to the city so they could probe the matter. Offences of kidnapping, trafficking and other charges were registered against three sisters, Asha Rokde, Usha Rokde and Chanda Gajbhiye, along with an unidentified man, by Gittikhadan police on Sunday after a complaint was lodged by the survivor.

Police said the survivor was taking her domestic animals for grazing when she claimed to have been kidnapped by Asha and Usha, who gagged her with a tranquillizer soaked handkerchief. The survivor told police she regained consciousness at Ujjain railway station, but did not raise an alarm as the kidnappers threatened her with dire consequences.

Subsequently, the woman was married to Sisodiya. She had also been forced to introduce Asha as her mother. Later, Sisodiya asked to meet his wife’s family after marriage, but Asha claimed they were going on a trip and were not at home. In the meanwhile, Sisodiya’s wife gave birth to a child but it died. Sisodiya, after losing the first child, insisted on meeting his in-laws. At this point his wife narrated the manner in which she had been brought to him.

Sisodiya told police he had handed over Rs75,000 to an agent as part of his community’s tradition for getting a match. He did not know the money was used by the agent to fix a deal with the sisters in Nagpur to kidnap a woman for marriage.

Senior PI Satish Gurav of Gittikhadan police station said the Rokde sisters and Gajbhiye no longer stay at their Jagdish Nagar address, and cops are searching for them.