India, Dec. 5 -- A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) councillor and his wife were booked for allegedly keeping their 28-year-old daughter hostage in their Sector 9 house for more than two weeks to "forcibly" marry her off to a man finalised by them, police said on Thursday.

According to police, the woman was rescued on Monday evening after she managed to send an email seeking "help" to Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini and senior police officials using her mother's mobile phone. The girl was shifted to a safe house after she expressed "threat" to her life from her family for refusing to marry the man selected by them, police said.

Senior police officials said the councillor's family had confiscated the woman's mobile phone almost thre...