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Agartala, May 8 (IANS) A paramilitary trooper has been arrested on charges of making a false promise of marriage to a tribal girl in western Tripura and raping her, police said Saturday.'We have arrested an Assam Rifles trooper Rajkiran Jamatia Friday night from Kalyanpur on the basis of a complaint lodged by the victim's family,' sub-divisional police official Jayanta Chakraborty told IANS. Kalyanpur is 50 km north of Agartala.Jamatia, now in jail, reportedly committed to marrying the 19-year-old tribal girl but subsequently fixed his wedding to another girl, the police official added.Police are investigating the incident.'In the tribals' customary law, giving a false marriage pledge is a serious punishable crime,' customary law expert Kumud Kundu Chowdhury said.
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