New Delhi, Dec 13 - A young man kidnapped a six-year-old girl in an attempt to force her mother to leave her husband and marry him. The man has been arrested, the police said Thursday.Sonu, 23, a former bus conductor, was arrested Wednesday evening from the Anand Vihar interstate bus terminal while trying to whisk the little girl to his hometown in Bulandshahar, Uttar Pradesh. The girl was rescued within six hours of abduction.Sonu told the police that he was working as a conductor on a bus on the route from Bulandshahar to Delhi when he met the mother of the girl five months back at the Bulandshahar bus stand while she was on her way to her in-laws' house at village Bhainsroli in the same district.'The man became friendly with her and the duo exchanged addresses and remained in touch. About a month back, he left his job and shifted to Delhi to be near her residence. Sonu then began regularly pressing her to discontinue her relationship with her husband and marry him, but she refused,' said Deputy Commissioner of Police (North Delhi) Devesh Srivastva.Sonu, a regular visitor at her home, picked up the girl from outside her school Wednesday afternoon. Her parents filed a missing complaint at the Timarpur police station.The young man also went missing since then.The police said they had laid a trap at bus stations and railway stations, suspecting that the accused might have taken the girl to his native place.The police official said Sonu had kidnapped the girl in order to pressurise the mother to marry him.
(c) Indo-Asian News Service
