In Bad Taste: Groom Arrives Chewing 'Gutkha', Bride Calls Off Wedding In UP
Only days after a bride in Pratapgarh district turned away the groom because he came drunk, another bride in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district refused to marry the groom because he chewed 'gutkha'.
What happened?
Maniyar police station official, Shailendra Singh, said that the bride, hailing from Mishrauli village, was to get married to the man from Khejuri village on June 5.
However, when the groom arrived with the marriage procession, the bride saw that he was chewing ¡®gutkha¡¯.She then refused to get married and the wedding was called off.
After hours of persuasion, when the bride refused to relent, the wedding was called off and the families decided to return the gifts they had earlier received from each other.This is the second such incident within one week in Uttar Pradesh.
Similar incidents
Last week, a bride in Pratapgarh district had refused to get married after the groom arrived drunk and started forcing her to dance with him.?As the situation took an ugly turn, the police was called in and it was on their intervention that the groom¡¯s family agreed to return the dowry gifts.
In May 2021, a bride who was suspicious of the groom's educational qualifications, asked him to recite table of 2, before the garlands could be exchanged. The groom failed to recite the table and the marriage was called off.
Just as the wedding was about to be solemnized, the bride walked out of the mandap, saying she cannot marry a person, who does not know the basics of mathematics.?
