Netizens rescue girl after Facebook post

Hyderabad: A 24-year-old woman was rescued by Netizens in filmi style on Monday after she posted on a Facebook group (Spread the Word) that her family was forcing her to marry against her wishes and was keeping her confined.

The woman had added in the same post that dialing 100 didn’t do any good, as they had allegedly advised her to listen to her family.

Following the post from the Muslim woman, people started contacting her through the details provided on Facebook and feared that they might lose contact if the rescue was delayed. Reportedly, some even went ahead and recharged her mobile Internet pack.

“When we started speaking to her after the Facebook post, we got to know that she was being forced to marry a 38-year-old against her wishes. She briefed us about the plans of her brother and parents. It was decided by a group of women to rescue her from her home,” said Priyanka Boska, one of the women who helped in the rescue.

The group, posing as co-workers from the school that the woman was working in, convinced her parents that they needed her at the school for a while.

They took the woman out of her house and approached additional commissioner of police, Crime and SIT, Swati Lakra, who directed them to the DCP’s office.

The woman gave a written complaint and the Banjara Hills PS registered a case against her parents under Sections 506 (criminal intimidation) and 341 (wrongful restraint).

The woman is now at a friend’s place and wishes to remain anonymous. The post on Facebook has also been deleted to protect her identity.