Jaipur, September 1: A 19-year-old woman is said to have been forcefully married to a man in Balotra district after being abducted by a group of men while she was grazing goats. She also testified in court that the accused men beat her and later gang-raped her. Police detained one of the men and had the victim undergo medical testing after a video of the man and woman moving around fire went viral on social media on Wednesday.

The purported wedding allegedly took place on August 21 in the Balotra neighbourhood near Gida police station. The woman and the man were engaged to be married four years ago, according to the police, but the engagement was broken for an unknown cause, which resulted in her kidnapping and forced marriage to the man. Rajasthan Shocker: Woman Crying for Help as Man Forcefully Conducts Marriage Rituals in Jaisalmer; Video Surfaces.

According to Gida police station officials, the woman's medical test revealed no signs of injuries on her body. They said that after learning of the woman's kidnapping on August 21, police carried out multiple raids in the neighbourhood. The victim and the man she was forcibly married to arrived at the Gida police station on August 28 as the police crackdown intensified. However, the officer noted that the woman's testimonies in court and at the police station were dissimilar.

She testified before the court that she was kidnapped by seven guys, including Hukum Singh, Jaswant Singh, and Sawai Singh, who then beat her and sexually assaulted her in a group. According to rumours on social media, the man shown in the wedding video footage is Jaswant Singh. Rajasthan Horror: Woman Abducted, Forcibly Married in Jaisalmer; DCW Chief Swati Maliwal Urges CM Ashok Gehlot to Intervene as Disturbing Video Surfaces Online.

The woman's mother reported the kidnapping in a police complaint, claiming it happened on August 21 while the victim and her sister-in-law were out grazing goats. The lawsuit claims that Hukum Singh, Sawai Singh, Phalsoond, Jaswant Singh, a resident of Shergarh, and three other people arrived with their faces concealed by dark clothing. According to the lawsuit, they forced the victim into a car before driving off.

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