18-yr-old girl poisons family to elope with lover in Surat

THREE BOOKED

18-yr-old girl poisons family to elope with lover in Surat

Executed Plan 2 Days After Her 18th Birthday

Yagnesh.Mehta@timesgroup.com

Surat:20.09.2021

Police booked three persons including an 18-year-old girl on Friday for allegedly poisoning her family to elope and marry her boyfriend. The girl was waiting to turn into a major to marry her lover and two days after her birthday, she poisoned her parents and brother and eloped. Police booked the girl, her ‘husband’ and his father as well.

Based on a complaint by the girl’s father Dipak Vanzara, Dindoli police booked Khushbu (18), her husband Sachin (22) and his father Ashok More (49) for causing hurt by means of poison and conspiracy.

Vanzara had lost his job during lockdown as an contractual employee in an industrial unit in Hazira.

Police arrested Ashok, a property broker, on Saturday while his unemployed son, Sachin, and Khushbu are on the run. Police suspect that the duo of taking shelter at a relative’s place. A police team is in search of the accused couple.

Investigation revealed that the two families lived in the same society in Dindoli where the two accused developed friendship.

Even in an earlier instance, Khushbu, who quit studies after class X, had eloped with Sachin around two years ago. After the duo was found at the home of Sachin’s relative, Khushbu was brought back home as she was still a minor. Her parents were against their relationship.

More family, meanwhile, shifted to another area and they also sold off their house to repay debt but the families stayed in touch.

According to the police, “Two days after Khushbu’s 18th birthday, she planned to elope with her lover and the duo plotted to make her parents unconscious and escape from home on September 12. She bought some tablets from a medical store and mixed it with dough to feed her family aloo paratha,” said an officer in Dindoli police station.

In the evening, she fed the entire family food with the medicine-laced dough but refused to eat herself. When her parents asked, she claimed she wasn’t feeling hungry. A little later, when the family members started to feel dizzy and were unconscious, Ashok came to pick Khushbu up on a motorcycle and she eloped with Sachin.

The father of the girl woke up late and uneasy the next morning and found his daughter missing from home. He woke up his wife and son who too were feeling uneasy.

Meanwhile, Vanzara received a call from Dindoli police station and was asked to come there. Police informed him that his daughter had come to the police station along with her new husband after getting her marriage registered.

“She came to inform the police about her marriage and be allowed to go with her husband as she was major now,” said the police.

After this, Vanzara’s condition deteriorated and he along with other family members had to be admitted to the hospital.

After recovery, he approached the police and lodged a formal complaint.