LUCKNOW: A youth has been arrested for trying to force a minor to elope with him after stealing ornaments and cash from her house.

The accused and his accomplice also threatened and held the class 10 student at knifepoint while beating the girl. She did, however, sound the alarm, and the bystanders came to her aid.

In a FIR, the girl's brother said that his sister had accepted a friend request from Arbaaz of Rampur around six months prior.

They started conversing and exchanging pictures. She eventually accepted Arbaaz's marriage proposal, at which point she began to distance herself from him.

When Arbaaz learned of this, he began calling her friends to propagate rumours about their relationship. The girl got scared and remained in his contact. Arbaaz reached Lucknow with a buddy, and he invited the girl to meet him nearby.

He implored the girl once more to marry him and asked her to give her parents tranquillizers, grab the jewellery and money, and flee with him.

The girl shouted at Arbaaz and rebuked him and then he and his friends thrashed her and one of them took her on knifepoint. SHO, Deepak Pandey, Aliganj,  said Arbaaz was later arrested and efforts were on to trace his aides.

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