Faridabad, February 23 A new development has emerged in the alleged wedding fraud involving Rajkumar Panchal, alias Bittu Bajrangi, who was allegedly scammed out of ₹30,000 under the pretext of arranging his marriage.
Pankaj, who is one of the accused in the FIR filed by Bajrangi, appeared before the media on Monday with his lawyer, and stated that Bajrangi showed the woman a photograph of his younger brother for the purpose of marriage, but he himself arrived for the wedding in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.
Pankaj claimed that after seeing Bajrangi—who is accused in the Nuh communal riots and the president of the Bajrang Force—as the groom, the woman flatly refused to marry him.
"Bajrangi's desire to get married is not new. He had previously visited Jharkhand and Rajasthan for this purpose. But, even there, things didn't work out," Pankaj said.
He also alleged that his brother-in-law (Bunty)—who is also named in the FIR—had shown photographs of three women to Bajrangi for his brother, but Bajrangi himself went to Aligarh to marry the youngest of the three women.
Manmeet Kaur, Pankaj's lawyer, said that some audio recordings, allegedly featuring Bajrangi's voice, have surfaced in the matter, and they mention the trafficking of a woman.
In one of the audio recordings, Bittu Bajrangi can be heard abusing and threatening a woman, Kaur charged, and said, "I will also write to the national and state women's commissions demanding an investigation into this matter."
"I feel that something has happened to the woman, and the truth should be revealed," Kaur said.
It is not clear whether Kaur is referring to the same woman for whom Bajrangi went to Aligarh for marriage.
On the other hand, Bajrangi, along with his supporters, reached the Faridabad police commissioner's office on Monday and submitted a memorandum, demanding a fair probe into the case. He also accused the Saran police station in-charge, Brahm Prakash, of colluding with the accused.
Prakash dismissed the allegations as baseless and said that the entire matter is being thoroughly investigated.
