3 ‘runaway brides’ in 3 months for Jaipur man - The Times of India

3 ‘runaway brides’ in 3 months for Jaipur man - The Times of India:

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JAIPUR: It took 47-year-old Gordhan Lal, a resident of Pali town, three marriages and over Rs 2.50 lakh cash to understand that taking help of human trafficking gangs for settling down in life was quite a costly affair.
He bought three women from human trafficking gangs over the past three months and in all the cases, the brides ran away a few days after the wedlock.
The last one who had fled earlier this week was traced to Ajmer by police on Sunday and handed over to him, but he approached the cops demanding action against members of the trafficking gang who duped him by "selling" him a woman from Maharashtra.
The case of Gordhan Lal is an example of the extent to which human trafficking gangs are active in the state and duping gullible people. Gordhan Lal has registered a complaint with the Industrial Area police station in Pali.
"Gordhan Lal who runs a shoe shop in Pratap Nagar area of the town had approached us last week when his wife went missing. He says that he used to buy shoes from a market in Ajmer and would take his wife along, but this time, he refused to take her. Infuriated over this, the woman fled from the house," sub inspector Jagat Singh said.
He added that in the complaint, Gordhan said he had bought his wife from a woman named Noorjahan, a resident of Akola in Maharashtra. "He says that he had come in contact with the woman through another woman, Sajia, in Jodhpur," the officer said.
Gordhan also claimed that he had bought two other women from the human trafficking gangs in January and February.
"After getting the complaint, we launched an investigation and it came up that he has repeatedly been fooled by human trafficking gangs. On the basis of some technical investigation, we traced his life wife in Ajmer. She had gone there via Jodhpur and was not intending to return," the officer said.
He added that investigation has been launched into the claims made by Gordhan Lal. "We are trying to identify those who had sold these women to him. Further investigation is on," the officer said.
Buying women from various states including UP, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and Orissa has gradually become a rampant practice in the rural areas of the state. Recently in the case of baby 'Falak' who died at the AIIMS Hospital, her mother had been sold to some man in Jhunjhunu district. The Delhi police team had traced her and took her into custody from a village there.