Police have registered a case against five persons in Maharashtra's Palghar district for allegedly kidnapping a 22-year-old woman, forcing her to marry her male friend and giving her a fake marriage certificate in Palghar, an official said on Monday, reported news agency PTI.

The woman, a B.Com student and daughter of a jewellery shop owner in Dahanu area, called her male friend sometime back to inform that her family had decided to get her married to someone else.