14-year-old girl near B'luru forced to marry, man carries her away in broad daylight
Five held by Tamil Nadu police
Bengaluru: Five people accused of forcing a 14-year-old girl from near Bengaluru into wedlock recently have been arrested by Denkanikottai Women Police of Tamil Nadu following a complaint filed by the girl’s grandmother.
A video clip has also gone viral on social media, where a young man is seen carrying away the weeping girl in the presence of another man and a woman, who are accompanying the man ignoring the struggle of the girl.
The girl, who was a resident of Thimmattur village in the valleys of Thottamanju hills near Hosur in Tamil Nadu, had studied till Class 7, after which, she was staying with her parents. On Monday, March 3, she was forcibly married to 29-year-old Madesha, a manual worker from Kalikuttai village in Karnataka. The girl, who returned to Thimmattur after the wedding ceremony in Bengaluru, is learned to have expressed displeasure about the wedding and refused to go to her husband’s house, but neither her parents nor relatives took heed of her objections, the sources have added.
Later, Madesha and his elder brother Mallesh carried the girl away from her relatives’ house in Kalikuttai village to their own house. The scene was captured in the locals’ mobile phones, with the eye-witnesses uploading and sharing the clip on social media platforms.
The girl’s grandmother is learned to have filed a complaint with Denkanikottai Women Police. The officers, who filed a POCSO Act case as well as an abduction case against the accused, arrested Madesha, his brother Mallesha and the girl’s mother Nagamma on Wednesday. They also arrested the girl’s father and Mallesh’s wife early Thursday morning.
The girl is learned to be currently living with her grandparents.
14 வயது சிறுமிக்கு வலுக்கட்டாயமாக திருமணம் செய்து வைத்த தாய்.. திருமணத்தில் விருப்பம் இல்லை என கூறி பிறந்த வீட்டிற்கு வந்த சிறுமியை தூக்கி சென்ற கணவர்.. பரபரப்பு காட்சி#Hosur | #ChildMarriage | #Mother | #Husband | #Police | #Arrested pic.twitter.com/UjVkpfNUFS
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NEET student hangs self in Rajasthan's Sikar
Jaipur (PTI): A student preparing for the NEET examination allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in a rented room in Rajasthan's Sikar on Friday, police said.
According to the police, the student allegedly hanged himself from a ceiling fan using his sister's scarf while one sister was attending coaching classes and the other was in the bathroom.
He had appeared in the NEET UG exam 2026, which was cancelled due to paper leak, they said.
Udyog Nagar SHO Rajesh Kumar said that the deceased, identified as Pradeep Meghwal, was a resident of Kanika ki Dhani village in Jhunjhunu's Gudha Gaudji area.
He had been living in a rented room in Sikar's Jaldhari Nagar area with his two sisters while preparing for NEET over the last three years.
His elder sister later found him hanging and informed the landlord and police after bringing him down, officials said.
The SHO said the body was kept at SK Hospital mortuary, and a postmortem had not been conducted.
The student's father, Rajesh Kumar Meghwal, told police that Pradeep's NEET examination had gone well and the family was expecting him to score around 650 marks.
Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot expressed grief over the incident and linked it to anxiety among students after reports of irregularities and paper leaks in NEET 2026.
Pilot said repeated paper leak incidents and cancellation of examinations were affecting students' mental health and demanded a time-bound investigation and strict action against those responsible.
