AHMEDABAD: An MA final year student is keeping her fingers crossed to see her boyfriend come out of jail on Valentine's Day so that they could tie the marital knot on Friday. The student has been running from pillar to post to get 26-year-old Kamlesh Kripalani released from Jamnagar jail on a parole, where he is lodged on charges of bootlegging.

Kripalani and the girl had decided to get married on Valentine's Day, against the will of the girl's family. This is because the boy is Sindhi and the girl is a Christian. But Kripalani was arrested on January 28, by Khokhra police and booked for bootlegging under the prohibition laws.

The girl helped him get bail from a city sessions court. She became the guarantor. But as soon as Kripalani was ordered to be released by the court on February 7, the authorities booked him immediately under the Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (PASA) on basis of the bootlegging cases filed against him during last four years.

From the next day, the girl renewed her efforts to secure freedom for the bootlegger for their wedding . Her lawyer Jayendra Abhavekar said that a request for parole was tendered before the state home secretary to release Kripalani for 30 days. She has narrated how her 'to be husband' was detained with malafide intentions.

While seeking parole "to perform marriage with the PASA detainee under the Special Marriage Act", the girl has mentioned in her plea, "My parents are not happy with our wedding. Because the detainee is a Sindhi and I am Christian. But if our marriage does not take place on February 14, there is a possibility that my parents would marry me off to some other person."

