GHAZIABAD: Four persons were booked on Wednesday for abducting a 15-year-old girl from her home in front of her relatives in Sihani Noor Nagar village on January 3. The girl is yet to be traced.The accused have been identified as Akshay, Deepak, Vikas and Ankit, all residents of Ramleela Tilla in Muzaffarnagar. The FIR has been registered under sections 366 (kidnapping, abducting or inducing a woman to compel her into marriage), 363 (kidnapping) and 452 (house-trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint) of IPC at Sihani Gate police station.The minor girl’s brother Arjun (20), a cook, said: “Around 2.30 am on January 3, I suddenly woke up hearing some noise inside the house. I found Akshay and his three accomplices inside the house forcefully trying to take my sister away with them. I raised an alarm, but they had put my sister inside a black colour car and fled. I and my mother Sonu ran after the car for a long distance but failed to stop the vehicle.”On the delay of five days in lodging an FIR in the case, Arjun said the family was trying to trace the girl on their own. SHO (Sihani Gate) Sanjay Kumar Pandey said efforts were being made to trace the girl. The accused are yet to be arrested. There is a possibility that the girl might have gone on her own, he added.

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