Abduction

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has ruled that a biological father cannot be booked for kidnapping his minor child in the absence of legal prohibition and quashed the FIR registered against him by his estranged wife.  n the absence of any “prohibition order” of any court, the father was a lawful guardian along with the mother and hence he cannot be booked for taking minor away.

In April 2014, Boko Haram Militants raided the school in the northeastern town of Nigeria's Chikbok, where they abducted 270 girls. However, on August 7, one of the abducted girls was freed and later reunited with her parents after seven years, said Borno state’s governor. Meanwhile, after mediation in 2017, 82 girls were freed adding the rest 24 who were either rescued or found. Besides, 113 girls are still under abduction.

Fugitive Indian businessman Mehul Choksi was likely on a romantic trip with his girlfriend when he got caught in Dominica, said Antigua and Barbuda PM Gaston Browne. However, Choksi had claimed that he was abducted by the collaborative efforts of Antiguan officials and those having "'links with India" and was allegedly tortured. Recently, Choksi's picture, after his arrest, had surfaced that showed him covered in bruises. 

In a heart-wrenching instance, abducted CoBRA commando Rakeshwar Singh Minhas's five-year-old daughter Sharagvi was heard appealing to the Naxals "Please, release my father". Minhas was abducted by the Maoists in an ambush that killed 22 personnel on April 4 in Chhattisgarh. Meanwhile, Minhas' wife living in Jammu's Barnai complained that senior officers refused to share information about her husband. She also demands governments help to… read-more