The 23-year-old woman says the groom kissed her to win a bet with his friends, and now she ‘doubts his character’
Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh: A kiss could mean everything or nothing at all. An angry young bride called off her wedding after the groom kissed her on stage in front of nearly 300 guests.
Out there in Western countries, a kiss is quite the done thing with religious sanction to back it, for it is customary for the priest to say after the marriage ceremony: “And now you may kiss the bride”.
But in India, the scenario is so very different.
The groom kissed his bride right after the couple exchanged garlands on Tuesday, November 30. The bride immediately walked off from the dais and later called the police.
The 23-year-old bride, a graduate, said the groom kissed her to win a bet with his friends, and now she “doubts his character”.
Both the parties were taken to the police station where the bride alleged that the groom touched her inappropriately but she initially ignored it.
“When he kissed me, I felt insulted. He did not care about my self-respect and misbehaved with me in front of several guests,” she alleged.
Police tried to mediate, but the bride refused to back down after which the wedding was called off and the guests went home.
The bride’s mother said, “The groom was instigated by his friends. We tried to convince my daughter but she refused to marry him. We have decided to wait for a few days and let her take some time to decide.”
The police said, “Technically the couple is married as the rituals were done by the time the incident happened. We will decide what to do after waiting for a couple of days for things to cool down.”
The district of Sambhal is part of the Moradabad division in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Bahjoi town serves as its district headquarters.
The districts which adjoin Sambhal are (clockwise from north) Amroha, Moradabad, Rampur, Badaun, Aligarh and Bulandshahr.
The nearest major metropolis is New Delhi. Sambhal lies 158.6 kilometres (98.5 mi) due east from New Delhi, past Ghaziabad, Noida and Hapur. The driving time from New Delhi is about 2 hours 40 minutes. Sambhal lies 355 km north-west from the state capital Lucknow.
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