Bijnor: `Dead` girl appears in court

A girl, declared dead and even buried by her kin near here, suddenly appeared before a local court accusing her family of trying to sell her.

Bijnor: A girl, declared dead and even
buried by her kin near here, suddenly appeared before a local
court accusing her family of trying to sell her.

18-year-old Chandani left home on May 5 and was missing
since then, her mother Rashida Khatoon had claimed.
After the incident, body of a young girl was recovered
from a lake by the police on Nehtaur-Noorpur road on May 6 and
Rashida identified it as her daughter`s, officials said.

Police, after getting the post mortem done, handed over
the body to her family who gave it a burial. However, on
Monday, Chandani appeared in the court of acting Chief
Judicial Magistrate Dinesh Kumar and said that she was alive.

The girl alleged that the FIR lodged by her family
about her eloping with a youth named in the case was false.
Chandani said that she had left her house on her own
and alleged that her parents had planned to sell her to an
elderly person for money.

The girl said that when she resisted, her parents
thrashed her and so she ran away from her home in anger. After
reading about her death in the newspapers, Chandani returned.

The acting CJM has sought a report from the Nehtaur
police in the case on the next hearing in the case on May 11.

PTI

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