Sola High Court

Science City

Chanakyapuri

Feroz Pathan

Dhudheshwar

Bajrang Dal

Prabhat Chowk

Jwalit Mehta

Demanding custody of their daughters, two sets of parents created a ruckus atpolice station on Monday evening. Both had lodged separate complaints after the girls went missing. On getting to know that the cops had found them, they had reached the police station. However, parents and relatives of one of the girls became furious when they saw her seated with her lover. They demanded to meet her, but were prevented by the cops. They claimed that the girls, Priya (18) and Sejal (22), had been trapped by the boys, who belonged to a different religion, into marrying them and hence should be returned to their parents. Sejal’s mother screamed, “Give us justice. Allow us to be with her.” Sejal’s father tried to break open the door of the room where she and her partner were sitting. PI JS Patel came out and tried to convince the parents and relatives who had gheraoed him. Priya’s father too sought custody of his daughter. “My daughter has been trapped. I request police to give me my daughter,” he said.Sejal, a resident ofarea, met Asif while studying at Gujarat College. They eloped and got married under the Special Marriage Act in April 2017. On December 7, Sejal’s parents filed a missing person’s report at Sola police station. Her father owns a business of electronics. The family has alleged that Sejal had stolen valuables and money from her house. Priya, a resident of, meton a trip to her relative’s house inarea and they fell in love. On January 1, her father lodged an FIR with Sola police alleging that Feroz had been kidnapped from their house and also threatened her mother.Sola PI JS Patel said, “In her statement, Priya has denied she was abducted. She has said she does not wish to go to her parents or with the boy. So we will send her to the women’s shelter home. On the other hand, Sejal has decided to return to her parents. She has given the statement that she had consented to marry the boy and will decide her future on her own.”Terming both the cases incidents of ‘love jihad’, activists of VHP and Bajrang Dal staged protest atarea and outside Sola police station., city president of Bajrang Dal, said, “If police and government do not ensure justice in both the cases, we will continue our fight.”