Kasganj: The Kasganj district police chief has ordered an inquiry into the allegation that the local police forced a man to tie the knot with his colleague despite him being married for the last five years.
The man’s wife has returned to her maternal house with the couple’s minor daughter and is now threatening to end her life. Left with no option, the aggrieved man wrote to the Kasganj Superintendent of Police seeking his help in the case.
Meanwhile, the personnel of the Soron police station have refuted the allegations and claimed that they had tried to amicably solve the matter through consensus of the two parties. The man had agreed to marry his colleague on his own to end any conflict arising out of the situation, the local police added.
According to preliminary inputs, the man from Kasganj district worked at a private firm in Gurugram where he came in contact with the colleague. The man, the inputs suggested, was helping her financially out of sympathy after her family was going through a crisis following her father’s death earlier this year.
Though the man is married and has a five-year-old daughter, the police seemingly overlooked this fact when they confronted him on 11 December after the colleague’s mother lodged a complaint against him.
This was after the mother accused the man of cheating on her daughter and not fulfilling the promise of marriage. When he allegedly declined to marry her, the mother filed a complaint with the police station for threatening her with a country-made gun.
Subsequently, the man was summoned to the police station and was allegedly forced to marry the colleague in the presence of both the parties. The photos and videos of this marriage were widely shared on social media, due to which it became a much-talked about episode.
The first wife has accused the police of getting her husband married in a wrong way, leading to turmoil in their happy life. She further sought action against the police.
The man and his father then approached the Kasganj SP, urging his intervention and a high-level investigation into the matter.
Circle Officer (Sadar) Anchal Singh Chauhan has initiated an inquiry into the matter. Chauhan told The Print that the incident was suspicious. “Whoever is found guilty, will be punished accordingly,” the officer added.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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The man must be named and shamed in public. He, despite being married, got into a relationship with another woman promising to marry her. That, in itself, is sufficient grounds for strict legal action against rhe man.