8 booked for making fake ‘nikahnama’ of city woman

Aurangabad | Wednesday | 19th September, 2018

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The other suspects are the man’s father and five others, including witnesses in the ‘nikahnama’.According to police, the complainant and the 25-year-old key suspect are distant relatives. )Aurangabad: The Aurangabad police have booked eight people, including a qazi, from Udgir in Latur district for allegedly making a false ‘nikahnama’ (civil contract of marriage) of a city-based woman.The man who has claimed to be the husband of the woman has been named as the key suspect by the 20-year-old woman in her complaint. He also allegedly threatened the woman’s family with dire consequences and left the place,” said police.The woman has stated that after going through the nikahnama, she found that the key suspect had taken her photos when she had eloped with him. He then asked her to go with him to Udgir as she was married to his son.“When she refused to go with him, the suspect threw a copy of the forged document in her house and allegedly showered abuses on her relatives. The woman eloped with him in September last year, following which her farther lodged a complaint of kidnapping against him.The woman’s father, however, withdrew the complaint following intervention by the relatives and acquaintances.In her complaint, filed late on Tuesday night, the woman has stated that on April 7 this year, the suspect’s father came to their house in Aurangabad and showed a nikahnama..