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court. Section 498 (A) of the Indian Penal
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and his parents and other relatives/friends whoever
being named on the complaint by wife or her close
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HOSHIARPUR, Sep. 02, 2006
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
A lookout circular has been issued by the Hoshiarpur
police at all International airports to nab an England-based
bridegroom and his family for committing a fraud with
a Jagraon girl after he failed to turn up at the wedding
venue, Gurdawara Singh Sabha, Hoshiarpur, on Thursday.
A case of cheating was registered after a midnight
drama at the city police station where scores of people,
mostly relatives of the girl's side, got together
to register a case. They feared that the NRI family,
bridegroom Rajinder Singh and his parents Steven Singh
and Linda Kaur, might escape to England.
Kuljit Kaur, mother of the 23-year-old bride, told
TOI that her daughter had been engaged for the last
one-and-a-half-years to Rajinder. According to the
family, Rajinder runs a bar in London.
Kuljit claimed that on Wednesday, a day before the
marriage, the boy's family had demanded Rs 10 lakh
and a Ford car in dowry. "We are not economically
well off and we had to reject the demand. My husband,
Iqbal Singh, is handicapped and had sold his dairy
to arrange money for the wedding. The baraat never
turned up at the scheduled time for Anand Karaj at
the gurdawara," she said. A reception for the
wedding party was to follow at the banquet of Hotel
Maharaja, said a relative, showing a wedding card.
Sources, however, said the wedding may have been
called off because during the Shagun ceremony a day
earlier, the bridegroom's sisters noticed an imperfection
in the girl's hand. The family of the bride, however,
rubbished this argument saying that the boy and girl
met four to five times during the time they were engaged.
"Didn't he see the finger then?" asked the
girl's ailing father.
Meanwhile the NRI family is absconding since Thursday,
and the house that they had rented at Krishna Nagar
locality has been vacated. Hoshiarpur SSP R N Dhoke
said the police was on the lookout for the culprits
and they would be nabbed soon
