This Article is From May 08, 2013

19-year-old alleges she was blackmailed and forced to marry in Jaipur

Jaipur: A 19-year-old girl has filed a complaint against her husband alleging that he forced her to marry him over an indecent video he had made when she was a minor, police said on Wednesday.

The girl has also charged her husband Abhishek with making dowry demands and throwing her out of the house, police said. In the FIR lodged at Mahila Thana in Jaipur on Tuesday evening, the girl said when she went to the Shastri Nagar police station to file a complaint against her husband, police officials there pressurised her to settle for a compromise.

"The girl alleged that Abhishek filmed some video (of hers) when she was a minor and, on the basis of that video, he forced her to marry him. The marriage took place at an Arya Samaj temple last year in September," police said.

She alleged that following their marriage, her husband began making dowry demands and recently threw her out of the house prompting her to approach the police.

Police said they were investigating the matter.

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