ICRF holds inquiry into abduction of 16-year-old girl in Dagestan

Residents of Derbent are suspected of abducting a 16-year-old girl with the aim of marriage to one of them, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has reported today. Now, the girl is back with her parents, while the kidnappers are under threat of up to 12 years in prison.

Investigators believe that on October 10, a 19-year-old local guy, acting along with his aunt and cousin, fraudulently enticed a girl from the kutan (a village of stock-farmers) of Achi in the Agul District of Dagestan into a VAZ-2110 car.

"They forcibly took her to the city of Yuzhno-Sukhokumsk, where they kept her for two days, demanding her consent to the marriage. The girl's parents did not know where she was," says the website of the ICRF.

On October 12, the police returned the failed bride home. Now, investigators decide on the freedom restriction measure for the alleged kidnappers. "The inquiry into this criminal case is under supervision of the Derbent Prosecutor's Office," says the website of the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan.

An abduction of a knowingly minor committed by a group of persons under a prior concert is punishable by imprisonment for a term of five to twelve years.