mehtab rana keeps facing the same charge he was booked for abduction when his business partners daughter 13 went missing in 2018 then a month later when she was kidnapped he was in the dock and now three years on when the girl was seen being taken away in a burqa in cctv footage that went viral he was arrested again only this time the abduction was staged and eight other members of his family were also booked three of them women who have been in jail since last monththe trail goes back to 2018 when the girls father went into business with mehtab he would trust mehtab with errands one time his daughter didnt make it back after mehtab had taken her for treatment on june 21 2018 an fir was registered against mehtab rana for kidnapping and compelling the minor girl to marry him said investigating officer mohit singh mehtab was not arrested however and the girl found a month lateron july 19 2018 the girls father lodged another abduction complaint mehtab obtained a stay on his arrest the girl was traced after three months when she said before a magistrate that mehtab and his two relatives danish and his father idrish had raped her mehtab was arrested danish and idrish were not in august 2019 mehtab got bail the girl meanwhile began to be home schooled for her class x boardsafter a twoyear gap the girl went missing again in a video that went viral a girl walking by is suddenly covered in a burqa by a man wearing a pathani suit and cap and taken away the day the video came out mehtab was arrested for abductionbut on march 1 the girl was found in delhi i had planned the whole thing she said before a magistrate on march 3in 2020 she had met a man divyanshu a 22yearold mobile game dealer from gwalior at a cousins wedding they struck up a rapport recently mehtab had accosted me on the road and threatened me to drop the 2018 cases that is when i came up with the plan to set him right she said so she roped in divyanshu and rinku sahu 22 from delhi who works with divyanshu the man in the pathani suit and cap was rinku divyanshu and rinku were booked for kidnappingbut mehtab was not off the hook police went back to the 2018 caseon march 2 they arrested danish and idrish too for abduction and gangrapeon march 4 mehtabs brothers gulfam 34 najakat 42 and tauheed 38 his wife bhuri 29 and two sistersinlaw shano 39 and reshma 31 were also arrested while the women had been given a clean chit for the 2021 case they were charged with wrongful confinement and criminal conspiracy in the 2018 case agra ssp babloo kumar saidin a new fir against mehtab were added charges for outraging modesty intentional insult to provoke breach of peace criminal intimidation extortion cheating and forgery