Man held for eloping with minor girl

Rajkot: A minor girl, who had eloped with her boyfriend in April, 2016, was traced along with her paramour at Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh on Friday.
Police said the accused, Niraj Bisat (24), had made the girl (then aged 16) elope with him on April 20, 2016 from her residence in Thorala locality of Rajkot. The girl’s parents had filed a habeas corpus petition, four years ago.However, the police were unable to track down the girl. Teams of police had gone eight times to Uttarakhand, Bisat’s native, three times each to Maharashtra and Delhi andtwice to Haryana, but to no avail.
“Then we formed a technical team which started tracing Bisat on the basis of his cellphone number. We had traced Bisat’s cellphone number through his family annd traced him and the girl to Kanavani village of Ghaziabad,” said H L Rathod, assistant commissioner of police, east zone, Rajkot.
Bisat worked as a factory labourer. tnn