MUMMIES LOVER
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Mother sells girl to lover
New Delhi: August 19 2002, Hindustan Times
A SEVENTEEN-YEAR OLD girl has become the victim of her mother’s illicit love affair.
Her mother tried to force her to have sex with a lover for several months, after which she tried in turn she tried to sell her daughter to her paramour and marry her off to him.
The mother has confessed to doing this, saying that her daughter’s marriage would be convenient for her to continue her affair with her lover.
The girl sought shelter with her uncle, but was turned away. After that she lodged a complaint with the police.
Her mother has been arrested. The lover is on the run.
The girl said she and her brother were in boarding schools and her father was away from the city on work for prolonged periods.
This gave her mother the opportunity to pursue an affair with Balwinder Malhotra, a secuirty guard working in a private firm.
After the girl came back from boarding school the mother allegdly forced her to have sex with Malhotra. When she refused, her mother beat her. “Everyday she used to force me to have sex with him. Once he tried to molest me. But I locked myself in a room. Later I told him not to touch me again and it was after that incident that my mother started pestering me to get married to him,” the girl said.
A case of abduction and compelling someone to get married has been filed.
The girl’s uncle has been persuaded to give her shelter until her father returns from Punjab.
The police has also sealed the family two storeyed house in north west Delhi and handed over the keys to the girl.
