GHAZIABAD: Four persons, including the father and cousin of a 23-year-old woman, were booked on Monday, allegedly for abducting her at gunpoint from outside a marriage registrar’s office in Ghaziabad. The case was registered at Sihani Gate police station after the Allahabad high court issued an order directing cops to produce the woman, Neetu, in court latest by January 30. The woman is yet to be traced.Neetu had allegedly been abducted on the afternoon of November 19 outside Sadar tehsil office where she had arrived along with her male friend, Yogesh (25), for registration of their marriage. Yogesh and Neetu, classmates since their school days in 2007, had arrived in Ghaziabad from their home town Sahadabad in Hathras district of UP in a Zest car a day earlier.Yogesh told TOI that he had informed the police control room immediately after the incident and had also lodged a complaint. However, police kept on delaying registration of the case saying it was being investigated whether the crime actually took place in Ghaziabad.“We decided to get married in October last year and told our families about our plan. Neetu’s parents were firmly against the marriage because our families belong to the same gotra. She was tortured and beaten up by her family members who also issued death threats to me. Then we decided to get married at the registrar’s office in Ghaziabad for our own safety,” Yogesh told TOI.According to Yogesh, around 15 men in two vehicles abducted Neetu soon after they walked out of the tehsil office following solemnisation of the marriage.“I asked a friend, Santosh, who lives in Delhi, to accompany us to the registrar’s office. Santosh and Neetu were waiting for me a short distance away as I went to fetch my car. Since there was a lot of rush in the lane outside the tehsil, I got delayed in getting back to them with the car. Neetu was abducted during this time at gunpoint. The men threatened Santosh and physically assaulted him too. There has been no trace of Neetu ever since and we fear the worst,” said Yogesh.A habeas corpus petition on behalf of Neetu was filed by Yogesh from Agra, where he went to live in a house belonging to his family after the incident. The high court, where the writ had been filed, issued the order to police on December 21.The FIR has been registered under sections 365 (kidnapping), 323 (assault) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC. The woman’s father, Sachipal Singh, and his brother Mukesh Singh have been named as accused in the FIR.“The case was registered only after we were fully convinced that she was kidnapped from Ghaziabad. The woman has not been traced yet,” said SP (city) Shlok Kumar.

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