Uunable to persuade her parents against marrying her off next year, a 17-year-old ran away with her two sisters — aged 15 and 16 — from their Mankhurd residence in the wee hours of June 27.

A police officer from Mankhurd police station said prima facie investigation revealed that the teenager's parents were in talks with her future in-laws to fix a marriage date for next year, after she turned 18. However, the girl was against it and was pleading with her parents to give her a few more years. But her parents refused to budge.