RAMPUR – So this may not have been the happy ending anyone invited to the wedding envisioned, but it’s a happy ending nonetheless. A woman was all set to marry the man of her dreams and then found to have groom family ditched by not disclosing pre-existing medical condition. So what’s a devastated bride to do? Well, why not marry some other guy in attendance. Huh? What?
The trouble began just when the groom Kishore extended his arms to garland bride for ‘varmala cermony’, he had an epileptic fit, falling to the ground in front of the whole gathering. He was then rushed to the hospital by his relatives.
The young 23-year-old bride Indira from Rampur, angry that her family had been kept in the dark about Kishore’s medical condition, promptly changed her mind and announced that she would happily marry at the same ceremony.
But fortunately for this girl, someone else stepped in. A guest and relative of the bride, a man called Harpal Singh volunteered to marry her instead. The latter was her sister’s brother-in-law.
Harpal Singh dressed in jeans and a leather jacket, fumbled for a moment before declaring he would willingly take Indira as his wife. This time the ‘var mala’ was exchanged between Singh and Indira, which went off without any hitch, with the pandit reciting the mantras and asking the new couple to take the seven pheras.
Meanwhile, when Kishore went back to the venue after he regained consciousness to see that his wife-to-be was now married to someone else.
Kishore pleaded with Indira, telling her that he would not be able to face friends and neighbours if he returned without her. His relatives, too, tried to intervene on his behalf. Where persuasion failed, violence was used – spoons, plates and dishes became weapons as wedding guests tried to force the bride to change her mind. But all in vain. The young woman stood firm.
Kishore and his relatives later filed an FIR at the Milak police station in Rampur district, which they eventually withdrew after elders intervened. SHO, Milak police station, RP Solanki said on Monday that cops had detained a few people who were there at the wedding.
“Both families have amicably resolved the matter,” Solanki said. “The complaints have been withdrawn. Kishore and his family have now returned in peace to Moradabad.”
What do you think about the story – Do you think the bride took the right course of actions?
Source: TOI