Heartbroken Afghani Groom Returns Alone After UP Bride's Kin Call Off Wedding At Last Moment

An Afghani youth, who had fallen in love with a girl from Sant Kabir Nagar and had come to marry her after the two families had agreed for the alliance, returned along with his relatives on Monday without his bride after girl¡¯s relatives objected to her being married away from the country.

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Fareedul Raftai (29) came in contact with a girl of Khalilabad in Sant Kabir Nagar district on a social networking site Facebook a year ago and the two had been chatting since. Fareedul and the girl decided to get married and their parents also agreed. On Saturday, Fareedul came along with his father Mohd Qadir (60), mother Adila Raftai (57), sister Nadia (23), uncle Qasim Wapsi (70) from Afghanistan and The Netherlands for the wedding ceremony to take place but when the rituals of ¡®nikah¡¯ started on Monday, many relatives of the girl started protesting against the wedding. They were not ready for marrying the girl away from the country after which the girl¡¯s parents decided to call off the wedding.

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Later, the girl¡¯s father told the media that he wants his daughter to study medicine and become a doctor and marrying her in another country was not the right decision. The district police also came into action following information from local intelligence. ¡°The visas and passports of the family from Afghanistan and The Netherlands were found to be as per norms. It was a family matter in which decision was taken by the family,¡± said Sant Kabir Nagar SP, Akash Tomar.