Their mother chose the grooms on the recommendation of a baba.
By Sreekanth A. Nair
In a bizarre incident, two sisters from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, called off their wedding on Wednesday saying respective groom looked too dark for their liking, reported The Times of India.
In another incident, on the same night, a woman couldn’t marry a man of her choice following the intervention of her husband with a court order preventing the woman from marrying another man.
According to police, the two sisters in Sikrara village of Fatehabad block were meeting their grooms for the first time on wedding floor. They had only seen the photograph of the grooms earlier. When the sisters saw them on Wednesday, they didn’t like them as, in their opinion; the men were too dark and old in person.
“Their mother chose the grooms on the recommendation of a baba,” Vinay Prakash, station officer of Fatehabad told The Times of India.
Though their family members and panchayat leaders compelled the women to go ahead with the marriage, they stood with their decision and called off the marriage. The grooms were from Aligarh.
In the second incident, a woman from Itmad-ud-Daula was about to marry another man when her husband, an engineer turned up with a court order restraining her.
Times quoted S K Singh, station officer of Itmad-ud-Daula, as saying, “The engineer claimed the woman is his wife. When we called up her father to inquire about her marital status, he said he knew about the court order.”