Three “love-related” stories in the papers today.
1) In New Delhi, a 32 year old man was acquitted in rape-abduction case.
Additional Sessions Judge Bharat Parashar acquitted Dhirendra Singh, a resident of Nangloi, saying perusal of records showed that the girl had accompanied the accused of her own will and played an active role by helping the accused (in taking her away) as a consenting party.
2) Bizarre love story in today’s Indian Express
Aditi Sharma and Udit Bharati were in their teens when they met and
fell in love. Their courtship continued through their student years in
Mahantsingh Engineering College and when their parents learnt about the
relationship they readily agreed to the marriage.Life couldn’t have got any better. They postponed their plans
for marriage as both wanted to acquire an MBA degree and secured
admission at the Indian Institute of Modern Management at Wakad in
Pune, unaware that their lives were about to change drastically.The couple, both 25, arrived in Pune in 2006 and while Aditi
began staying at the ladies hostel of the institute, Udit and a few
friends moved into an apartment. Soon, Aditi met Pravin Khandelwal, a
25 year-old youth from Jaipur and fell for him, heedless of her
six-year old relationship with Udit. Madly in love with Pravin, she
reportedly told Udit that she was no longer interested in pursuing a
relationship with him.Aditi and Pravin moved to Gurgaon in search of work. Six months
passed and Aditi came back into Udit’s life again. She made a call to
his cell phone, asking him to meet her at a restaurant in Chinchwad.
When the estranged couple met on the evening of April 22, allegedly in
the presence of Pravin, Aditi is said to have offered her former lover
prasad from the Shirdi Sai Baba shrine. After the meeting, Udit returned to his flat where he began
vomiting. His friends rushed him to hospital, where he died a couple of
days later. The post mortem revealed traces of arsenic in Udit’s body,
which was attributed to the prasad.
and finally..
3) In ‘My son being framed for marrying a Hindu girl’, the Indian Express reports on a case in which the facts are very unclear.
Even as 21-year-old Mudassar Irfan, a management trainee, was sent to 14 days of judicial custody for allegedly kidnapping Aditi Tyagi, his father said he was being framed for marrying a Hindu girl.Aditi had gone missing on Monday evening, and her car was found drowned in Hindon River. Since the Ghaziabad Police could not find the girl’s body, a missing report was converted into a case of suspected kidnapping. After tracing the girl’s call details, the police arrested Mudassar who was returning from his office on Wednesday.
The police claimed the boy had been sent to judicial custody as the girl had told the court (in an in-camera statement) that she was drugged and kidnapped. “The girl told court that someone had drugged her and she became unconscious till the time police discovered her from Mudassar’s room in Gurgaon,” stated Ghaziabad SSP Deepak Ratan. This statement by the SSP is in contrast with his earlier statement given on Wednesday that both of them had married a year ago.
Dr Ahmad said, “Since it was impossible for them to get a place to live in after disclosing their real names, Mudassar had converted to Hinduism. Now, he is Manav,” he added.Dr Irfan Ahmad, father of Mudassar who visited him in Dasna jail in Ghaziabad on Thursday, claimed his son was innocent. “We have not been given a chance to hire a lawyer,” alleged Irfan. “Aditi and Mudassar are adults, so why was he sent to judicial custody on abduction charge when police on Wednesday had categorically told the media that, according to the girl, they had both got married a year ago?”
