{"id":6962,"date":"2014-10-28T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/10\/28\/fathers-kidnap-ordeal\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:58:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:58:16","slug":"fathers-kidnap-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/28\/fathers-kidnap-ordeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Father&#8217;s kidnap ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Father in attempted murder trial tells of men who kidnapped him to find his son<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" width=\"467\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"184\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/Gallery\/Leicester-crown-court-467x184.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFather of Prashant Govinde, Govinde Ramgi, stated the kidnapping occurred after his son ran away with his girlfriend. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe case involves a teenager who had her throat cut after trying to escape an arranged marriage by eloping with her lover. 17-year-old Darshana Narotam along with her 22-year-old boyfriend Prashant Govinde and an accompanying 15 year old, were all injured in the violent attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe attacker was 26-year-old Bharat Soma, the teenager\u2019s promised husband.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nRamgi said that Narotam\u2019s father and a group of other men came to his home demanding to know where Govinde was. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nHe told the jury the men were very aggressive, one of the assailants Harshad Jagdish started shouting at him.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI said I didn\u2019t know where Prashant was,\u201d said Ramgi.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nJagdish then asked for Govinde\u2019s bank statements before searching the house. They demanded Ramgi go with them to a Barclays Bank in Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe prosecution alleges he was kidnapped and taken to the bank against his will in order to discover where and when Govinde had withdrawn money, so they could find the lovers.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nRamgi said Narotam\u2019s father and Jagdish entered the bank whilst the others waited outside.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nJagdish reportedly asked for details about Prashant\u2019s withdrawals but the staff refused to give any information.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe men then let Mr Ramgi go and he went home, the court was told. The men behind this incident deny all charges.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nSoma carried out the knife attack after receiving information on the couple\u2019s whereabouts. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nHe attacked them, including an accompanying teenager, with a three-and-a-half inch kitchen paring-knife.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe trial continues.&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father in attempted murder trial tells of men who kidnapped him to find his son &#13; Father of Prashant Govinde, Govinde Ramgi, stated the kidnapping occurred after his son ran away with his girlfriend. &#13; The case involves a teenager who had her throat cut after trying to escape an arranged marriage by eloping with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}