Woman's plea asking police to contact eloped daughter allowed

A mother's plea seeking directions to the Delhi Police to contact or produce her 21-year-old daughter, who had allegedly married after eloping with a man, to know her well-being has been allowed by a court here which set aside a magistrate's order.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Narinder Kumar directed the metropolitan magistrate to either ask the police to contact the woman's daughter or to produce her in the court to satisfy the mother that her daughter is happily married with the man.
The order came on the revision petition of Delhi resident Dropadi Devi who had challenged the magistrate's order dismissing her plea for issuance of search warrants for her daughter's release from her alleged "illegal detention".

The woman feared that her daughter had been forcibly kept by the man who had allegedly threatened her not to come to their house again.
"In view of the discussion, revision petition is allowed while setting aside the impugned order (of magistrate).
"Metropolitan Magistrate is directed either to issue directions to the SHO of police station Sadar Bazar to contact the daughter of the petitioner (mother) or to ask for her appearance before the court so that the grievance of the mother is redressed and she feels satisfied that her daughter has married of her own free will and is living happily," the Sessions Court said.

The woman, in her plea, had alleged that her daughter had gone to Bal Sahyog Bhawan in Connaught Place here on February 12 to take an examination but she did not return home.

She had said that she later on came to know that the man, also a resident of Delhi, had taken lured her daughter away with the help of his sister.
She suspected that the man had forcibly solemnised marriage with her daughter and she has been illegally kept in their house, the plea had said.
"She requested the man to allow her to see her daughter, but they threatened her not to come to their house again or otherwise she would be implicated in some false case," it had said.