MANSEHRA, Aug 1: A 20-year-old girl has dismissed her father’s claim about her kidnapping and told a local court she had married a man of her own will and without any pressure, it is learnt.

Taj Mohammad of the Karori area in Oghi had lodged a complaint with police on July 24 that Azizur Rehman and his sons Mohammad Akram and Mohammad Ashraf had kidnapped his daughter Nurgus Bibi at gunpoint. A police party raided a house in Abbottabad on Thursday and recovered the girl and arrested the three persons.

Nurgus Bibi was presented in the local court in Mansehra on Friday where she said she had married Mohammad Akram and she had not been kidnapped.

She was produced under tight security because, according to police sources, she had told police her family members might kill her. Nurgus Bibi was handed over to her husband on court orders and the arrested persons were released.— Correspondent