Puttur: Keerthika (24), a married woman from Puttur, who went missing from her husband’s house and was subsequently found in an ashram in Tamil Nadu told the court on Thursday that she would rather go back to the ashram and than return to her husband.

A police team led by Puttur inspector B.K Majayya traced the married woman to an Ashram in Tamil Nadu, after the court issued a search warrant.

Earlier, Keerthika’s husband Giridhar Bhat had filed a complaint in the Puttur police station, holding one David Denson responsible for kidnapping his daughter. A case was registered against David, who was working with Keerthika for  the same company in Bengaluru.

When David was produced before the local court some months back, he was reportedly attacked by miscreants in the premises of the court.

Conversion

Meanwhile, it was learnt that David must have allegedly converted Keerthika into Christianity and subsequently married her.

On Tuesday, the girl pleaded before the court that she would not go back with her husband Giridhar Bhat, who she previously loved and married.  “My husband and in-laws have been giving mental torture. The police, therefore, should take me back to the ashram”, she told the court.

She also said that she is not converted to any religion nor did anyone force her to change her faith. I left the house, as I was unable to bear the mental torture in my husband’s family, she said.

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