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Monday, Oct 04, 2004

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Two freed in kidnapping case

NEW DELHI, OCT . 3. A city court has set free two persons, including a woman, in a kidnapping case foisted on them by Delhi police after her son allegedly eloped with a girl from the neighbourhood.

``I consider that this case is a glaring example of how poor persons are put in jail by police without any offence and their liberty is snatched away on flimsy grounds...there is nothing on the basis of which these two accused can be put to trial,'' Additional Session Judge, S.N. Dhingra, said while discharging Sundri and Shivkumar Rajbhar.

The order also made known the court's displeasure at the Metropolitan Magistrate, who sent the matter for trial to it without noticing that ``there was no evidence for putting these two accused persons on trial.''

On April 26 last, one Satpal complained to the police in Mehrauli in South Delhi that his 16-yer-old daughter had gone missing. She had gone for her tuition the day before, but had not returned, he claimed. Enquiries revealed that she used to meet one Anand Kumar Bhardwaj, the complaint said. Despite the probe, Anand or the girl could not be traced. Police then booked a case against Anand's mother Sundri charging her with concealing them. They also charged Rajbhar with getting both married and helping them run away. -- PTI

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