Four men who kidnapped an underage girl have been handed sentences in Samarkand. According to the case file, B. Kh., 30, conspired with his acquaintances—29-year-old M. M., 28-year-old A. M., and 24-year-old U. Z., to kidnap an underage girl on the morning of August 6, 2025.
That morning, they were driving a GM Nexia, driven by A. M., through the Kattakurgan district when they saw the girl crossing the road. She was heading to a store across the street to buy bread.
B. Kh. and U. Z. approached the girl, hit her, grabbed her by the hair, forced her into the car, and drove away. They returned the girl to the same spot some time later. B. Kh. and his accomplices fully pleaded guilty at the trial, but claimed they had “mistaken" her for someone else.
According to him, the previous evening he had gathered some friends for a get-together. After buying some beer, they went to the banks of the Narpay Canal, where they drank until the early morning.
"As it was getting light, U. Z. said it was time for him to go home. A. M. said he would give him a ride home and fill up the car with gas. We all got in the car. As we were driving past the Azizbek teahouse in the Navbahor neighborhood, we saw a girl we didn't recognize on the right side of the road. At that moment, U. Z. said, 'Stop the car, that's a friend of mine, a girl who hangs out in nightclubs,'" B. Kh. testified in court.
"Since we were all drunk, we wanted to have sexual intercourse with the girl U. Z. was talking about. A. M. stopped the car next to the girl. I got out. At that moment, the girl was crossing the road. I followed her, grabbed her hand, and dragged her toward the car. She resisted, saying, "I'm not the kind of girl you think I am, let me go." U. Z. also got out of the car. Then we grabbed the girl by the other hand and forced her into the car," B. Kh. told the court.
The teena girl, forced into the car, cried and begged to be let go, saying her mother had sent her for bread and showing her the 8,000 soums she had.
Then A. M. told the girl they were police officers. "One girl killed her mother and ran away. That's why we stopped you and put you in the car," he told the girl.
B. Kh. asked U. Z. if it was the same girl and if he had made a mistake. U.Z. confirmed he was mistaken. The men then took her back to the same place where they had picked her up and left her there.
The other defendants gave similar testimony.
