LUCKNOW: Women Helpline of UP Police in Lucknow helped arrest a software engineer from Delhi for dumping a divorcee colleague after she got pregnant in the course of their 3 years long live-in relationship, to get married in Barabanki.

The girl, escorted by police, reached the venue where the accused was getting married and got him arrested.

On Tuesday afternoon, in charge of the Women Helpline Cell Sub Inspector (SI) Raghwendra Singh was approached by a woman, resident of Delhi, who accused her live-in partner of dumping her to marry someone else.

The accused Luv Singh Verma -also a native of Delhi and working with the complainant in the same multi-national information technology firm in Noida as software engineer - was getting married to another girl working with Punjab National Bank in Delhi at the latter's residence in Barabanki, the complainant told SI Raghwendra Singh.

Though she had nothing to provide as evidence for her allegations, she sought help from the women's helpline to at least escort her to Barabanki and confront the accused.

Once the matter was placed before deputy inspector general of police (DIG) Navniet Sikera, he met the girl. After due consultation with the additional director general of police (ADG) Law & Order and Crime Arun Kumar, who issued instructions to the Barabanki police to back-up the Women's Helpline Police team there, the complainant was escorted to the Sri Ram Vatika on Haidergarh road where Luv Verma was in the process of completing the marriage rituals.

The guests at the wedding were taken by surprise when the girl from Delhi entered the venue with women police in tow and confronted Luv Verma.

Though the bride's family initially contested her claims and questioned her, once the bride's father -a lawyer by profession - was convinced that Luv Verma had concealed from them the truth of his bachelor life, they showed the baraat the gate.

The bride's family, despite all the expenditure they had incurred on the arrangements for the marriage gone waste, thanked the complainant for saving the life of the bride.

Police then escorted Luv Kumar to the Kotwali police station of Barabanki where he failed to prove wrong any of the allegations leveled against him. He admitted to have married the complainant in a temple three and a half years ago with the assurance of hosting a proper function to announce their marriage, but never did.

The victim was left to sort out the issue with Luv Kumar all by herself. After he refused to marry her, she lodged a written complaint with the Kotwali police accusing him of repeated rape, sexual exploitation and fraud.

She mentioned in her complaint that she was pregnant and offered to undergo a DNA profiling to corroborate her claims.

Thereafter, a case was lodged on the complaint of the victim and Luv Kumar was produced before a court in Barabanki which thereafter sent him to judicial remand for the next 14 days. Luv Kumar was then sent to Barabanki jail.