Jhansi Man Who Staged His Own Abduction To Get Out Of Arranged Marriage Gets Royally Busted

Getting two complete strangers to spend the rest of their lives together is a pretty common practice in India. But things are changing now, and some people forced into this kind of a wedlock are protesting in unexpected ways.

Case in point: this Jhansi man who literally staged his own abduction to escape a wedding arranged by his family.?

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According to an HT report, the man identified as Ravi Singh was allegedly planning to marry his long time girlfriend who is a Delhi University student. However, things took a turn for the worst when the??31-year-old software engineer was forced into an arranged marriage.?

In a bid to escape the wedding, Singh sent a text message to his father and cousin saying he was abducted and demanded a Rs 5 Lakh ransom.?

Singh, who lived with his friends in the PG, told his friends that he was going to Jhansi for his wedding, after distributing wedding invitations to his colleagues.

Muhammad Akil, commissioner of police told? TOI that he travelled to different states to stage the entire episode.?

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Meanwhile, Singh's mother was so shocked that she was hospitalised and his distraught father reached the Police Station in Gurugram to lodge a complaint.?

When the police got the case they smelled something fishy while reading into the text and the way the mobile number was being used.?

Vivek Kundu, station house officer of Sector 18 police station, Gurugram, made police spread out in Chandigarh, Haridwar, Jammu, Delhi and Kurukshetra to track him down according to the phone usage.?

Ravi Singh was busted in Sukhrali, Sector 17, when he was about to visit his PG accommodation to pick up his clothes.?