Odisha wedding ceremony drama: Bride on the run and groom’s run-in with regulation
By Express News Service
BHAWANIPATNA: What Kalahandi’s distant Malguda hamlet noticed on Tuesday night time was a plot match for a Bollywood potboiler. It was a marriage with too many twists within the story – a bride on the run; a humiliated groom in for a shock and entry of police on the finish.
After his would-be bride eloped together with her boyfriend with the wedding procession solely 50 metre away from her home, a 26-year-old youth didn’t return disheartened from the hamlet below Jaipatna block’s Badkarlakot village. He was in for an even bigger shock when the bride’s household provided her minor youthful sister for marriage.
The groom had the comfort of a symbolic marriage with the 15-year-old lady however his cheer was short-lived because the district administration reached his home in Tentulikhunti village below Kalampur block and took away the bride.
The drama unfolded after the groom Ramesh (identify modified) reached Badkarlakot in a procession to marry Sarita (identify modified). When he was metres away from the bride’s home, Sarita eloped with one other man sporting all of the gold ornaments purchased for the wedding.
On listening to the information of the lacking bride, panic broke out amongst members of each the bride and groom’s households. Fearing social stigma, the bride’s father provided to marry off his youthful daughter to the groom.
Later, a symbolic marriage was performed with Ramesh making use of ‘rice tikka’ on the lady’s brow. In the night time, the groom returned residence with the lady.
On being knowledgeable that the lady was a scholar of Class X in Badkarlakot highschool and set to look for her board examinations this yr, Jaipatna Child Development Project Officer (CDPO) Sukanti Behera and police reached her home at Malguda late within the night time.
However, she had already left with the groom. The CDPO together with the police group reached Ramesh’s home at Tentulikhunti at round 4 am and rescued the lady. The groom’s relations have been counselled and instructed that the lady was a minor and isn’t of marriageable age.
They agreed and handed over the lady to her brother who was accompanying the group. The lady is now staying in her personal home together with her dad and mom and can seem within the Class X examinations later this yr. Both the households additionally agreed to not solemnise the lady’s wedding ceremony earlier than she attains the marriageable age.
