Bride calls off wedding after dance goes awry Woman Marries Relative; Spurned Man Demands ₹7L

 Bride calls off wedding after dance goes awry

Woman Marries Relative; Spurned Man Demands ₹7L

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Bosco.Dominique@timesgroup.com

22.01.2022

Cuddalore: A betrothal, a reception, a shoving match and a wedding with another groom. It had all the elements of romance, pomp and drama.

Just hours before they could say ‘I do’, the couple broke up — over an alleged slap in the face. Within hours of being ‘publicly humiliated’ by her husband-to-be, the bride called off the wedding and married a relative at the scheduled date and time, but a venue seven kilometres away. The spurned groom has now lodged a complaint with the Panruti all-women police station seeking compensation of ₹7 lakh, which his family spent for the reception and wedding arrangements.

Police said a youth from Periyakattupalayam near Panruti employed as a senior engineer in a private firm in Chennai and a postgraduate woman from Panruti were formally engaged with the blessings of their parents and elders of both families on November 6.

The elders decided to hold the reception on January 19 in Panruti and the wedding the following day in Kadampuliyur village. The organisers had even arranged a DJ for the reception, held the day before the wedding as is the custom in some communities. The groom and bride were happily dancing to the tunes of the DJ and everything went smooth until the bride's cousin joined them on the floor. Her cousin initially held the hands of the couple and danced with them. Soon, he came in between them, placed his arms around the shoulders of the couple and started dancing with them, irking the groom.

The groom pushed away the cousin and the bride. What happened next was a blur. The bride's family insists that the groom slapped her in front of all the guests in the hall when she joined him on the decked up stage after the dance

Bride’s family managed to find groom within hrs

Shocked and humiliated, the tearful bride called off the wedding. Her parents approved her decision. They walked out in a huff, managed to find a suitable groom among their relatives within hours and the following morning, the bride married the new groom at the scheduled time and date and a new venue.

The rejected groom said in his complaint that the bride's parents and relatives charged him with ill-treating her and added they physically assaulted him and verbally abused him.

"When she reached the stage after dancing, I asked her why she danced with others. For which, she replied that it was her decision to dance. Soon her parents and relatives accused me of threatening her even before tying the knot and abused and assaulted me. They said they will teach me a lesson by stopping the marriage and marrying their daughter off to another man,” the groom said in his complaint. “We have spent more than ₹7 lakh for the reception and the wedding. We request you to help us in getting the compensation," he a dded in the complaint.

Panruti all-women police inspector S Valli said the groom was accused of slapping the bride for dancing with her cousin following which the bride rejected the groom and her parents got her married to another man. “We have received complaints from both sides. We have instructed the parties of the two sides to come for inquiries tomorrow (Saturday),” said Valli.