Officers at the Thrikkakara police station were kept on their toes late on Tuesday when a young couple, who had been on the run for the past few days, surrendered at the station here.
According to officials, the couple who wanted to get married against their families’ wish, appeared before the police after the girl’s parents filed a ‘missing’ complaint with the Kannur police. The duo went incommunicado two days ago and were staying at a house at Vazhakala here. They came to the police station around 10 p.m. after contacting the women’s helpline and the girl was soon shifted to a care home. She was sent to Kannur on Wednesday morning along with three officers, including a woman officer, to be presented before a magistrate.
Official sources said the girl, a 21-year-old from Kelakom, accused her parents of mounting pressure on the boy’s family by issuing life threats and sought police help for her marriage with the 24-year-old youth from Erumeli.
According to the girl, her parents were not willing to provide her identity documents, in order to prevent the couple from registering the marriage. The woman belongs to an upper middle-class family in Kelakom and her parents did not approve of their relationship. She fell in love with the youth who worked at a mobile phone shop in Kannur.
Officials said the girl reached Kelakom at 6 p.m. “The girl’s family is willing for the marriage now, but they only want it to have a legal validity. We’re producing them before a magistrate here with the consent of both families. If the girl reiterates her stand before the magistrate too, they will be allowed to be together,” said an official with the Kelakom police station.
