Okaz/Saudi Gazette

TAIF — Two women, one of them a bride-to-be, were admitted to Dar Al-Fatayat Protection Home after police had found them guilty of planning and kidnapping the groom in order to stop the marriage.

Al-Qirai Police Station in Bani Malik Governorate revealed a case in which a man in his 40s went missing. The man had called his fiancée in Al-Qirai to tell her that he was kidnapped by two men.

The men were posing as police officers and had abducted the groom on the borders of Al-Mandaq Governorate near Baha. They beat him up and took a picture of him naked in addition to stealing SR20,000 from him. The abductors then threw the fiancé near a valley and left him there telling him that he is wanted by Al-Mandaq Police.

The man then went to Al-Mandaq Police thinking he was targeted by the police but when he reached the police station the police informed him that he was not summoned or wanted by them at all. The police saw that the fiancé was bruised and beaten and he told them of the incident in detail. Al-Mandaq Police then forwarded the case to Al-Qirai Police for further investigation.

The fiancé was not able to give any descriptions of the kidnappers but the police contacted the fiancée as she was the only other person mentioned in the incident. The fiancée denied ever calling her fiancé and left the police station to prepare for her wedding, which was still scheduled to happen. The police inspected her phone but found out that all of the incoming and outgoing calls had been deleted.

On the wedding day, the police arrested the two men who had kidnapped the fiancé. The kidnappers confessed of their crime and revealed that the fiancée was the one who had arranged for the entire operation. The police arrested the fiancée on the afternoon of her wedding day and she cried and confessed to the entire operation. The fiancé said that she had asked her friend to arrange the entire kidnapping operation so her wedding would be canceled.