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Syed says that Vaishnavi and Syed fell in love a year ago. Earlier this year, they decided to get married so that they could be together. Although Vaishnavi is a few years younger than Syed, both are adults.
“Vaishnavi told me that we should marry the court. So I had first asked him to talk to his family. He spoke to his brother who himself married a court. His brother gave him his lawyer Gave contact number, “Syed told The Quint,
Vaishnavi then spoke to the lawyer, a man named Akshay Karan, who promised him that he would arrange for his court marriage. According to Syed, the lawyer asked for a progress of Rs 5000, which he duly transferred.
Vaishnavi and Syed traveled from Bhopal for about four hours to register their marriage under the Special Marriage Act on 7 February. He knew a little that he was walking in a trap.
“After we reached the court, the lawyer took our documents, signed them, and took me another 35,000. Then he said,” I am going inside the court to complete the paperwork. ” , A crowd of vigilance also came and attacked us, “Syed remembers.
“None of them asked me anything; they started beating me directly. Then, in the police post inside the court, they seated me as punishment. They took my phone and my money.”
Vaishnavi tried to save Syed from the crowd but he also killed him.
A video of Syed’s beating and threatening Syed in a court canteen is roaming in the media and social media.
The mob stopped beating Syed only when the police intervened and took him.
Mediaperson surrounded the police vehicle, in which Vaishnavi was being taken. Even when she was being indicated by a journalist that Syed had forced her to marry, Vaishnavi said that she had come on her own will and she has known her for three years.
The couple waited at the police station till 10 pm and the police sent Vaishnavi back with their family and Syed with their brother.
Syed had seen or heard Vaishnavi for the last time on the night of 7 February at the police station. Since then, she says, she has not stepped out of the house nor is her phone available.
