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Originally posted by Loveyoubxtch
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The girl and the guy are in an relationship despite the disapproval from their families. They left their village for Delhi and they told people that it was because she was being threatened in their village because of her brother's actions. It never happened. They were being harassed by their own families and the small lie became bigger because Amnesty India heard about it and stepped in.
Now the girl is back in the village with her family and her family is claiming she was forced to go by that man; they're saying there was no "love affair" and she's repeating what they're saying:
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"It's all lies," the woman's male cousin tells me. "She never went willingly. There was no love affair."
Just two doors away, I can see the roof of the house belonging to the man she is said to have eloped with. It's easy to imagine how they met and decided to run away.
But when she speaks to me, I get a completely different version.
"I barely knew the man," she says her eyes fixed on the ground.
"I didn't even know his name. He tricked me into going with him saying he'll get me a job. Then he kept me against my will."
It's difficult to judge whether she's speaking of her own free will but her answers appear a bit rehearsed.
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But authorities are investigating and saying she's lying and went willingly with him. Her family is pressuring her to lie because they want to end their relationship:
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"We believe that the woman went with the man willingly," says Additional Superintendent of Police, Vidyasagar Misra.
"But in our investigations we didn't find any evidence that a village council meeting took place and order passed against anyone as reported."
We put this to Amnesty who said they had based their information on the sister's petition to the Supreme Court.
"We have not been on the ground, we have not visited the village," Amnesty spokesperson Gopika Bashi told us.
"Regardless of allegations being thrown back and forth that it's very important that the family is safe and the girls are safe."
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