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KOLKATA, India (AFP) - Police in eastern India are hunting a groom who quit his marriage ceremony midway when his bride's parents said they could not meet his dowry demand of a motorcycle, an official said.
Rajiv Shaw, 31, walked out of the ceremony at Chitpur on the outskirts of the West Bengal state capital of Calcutta Saturday after springing the surprise demand, police official Sheikh Abdul Rajjack said.
The bride's mother, Urmila Devi, said her daughter's marriage with Shaw, an autorickshaw driver, was fixed last November.
She had handed over 65,000 rupees (1,480 dollars) in cash besides furniture, kitchen utensils and gold ornaments as a dowry.
"Rajiv demanded a motorcycle on the day of marriage," Devi said.
"My husband is an employee in a local electric shop. We have sold out everything to get our daughter married. It's beyond our reach to give him a motorcycle," she told AFP.
Police were on the lookout for Shaw after arresting his father and the matchmaker who arranged the wedding on charges of seeking dowry, Rajjack said.
Although the demanding and giving of a dowry was officially banned in 1961, the practice continues.
Every year, about 6,000 women are killed in India -- often doused with kerosene and set on fire in staged kitchen "accidents" -- or harassed into suicide by husbands and in-laws angered by unmet dowry demands.
Rajiv Shaw, 31, walked out of the ceremony at Chitpur on the outskirts of the West Bengal state capital of Calcutta Saturday after springing the surprise demand, police official Sheikh Abdul Rajjack said.
The bride's mother, Urmila Devi, said her daughter's marriage with Shaw, an autorickshaw driver, was fixed last November.
She had handed over 65,000 rupees (1,480 dollars) in cash besides furniture, kitchen utensils and gold ornaments as a dowry.
"Rajiv demanded a motorcycle on the day of marriage," Devi said.
"My husband is an employee in a local electric shop. We have sold out everything to get our daughter married. It's beyond our reach to give him a motorcycle," she told AFP.
Police were on the lookout for Shaw after arresting his father and the matchmaker who arranged the wedding on charges of seeking dowry, Rajjack said.
Although the demanding and giving of a dowry was officially banned in 1961, the practice continues.
Every year, about 6,000 women are killed in India -- often doused with kerosene and set on fire in staged kitchen "accidents" -- or harassed into suicide by husbands and in-laws angered by unmet dowry demands.
ON A LIGHTER NOTE:
posted by Dirty Dan at 6:11 PM
6 Comments:
Whats ur problem dude??????
when will u pakis learn that hate and violence is not the way to solve our conflict.grow up man.
you wot mate? don't you guys understand a bit of humour on your side of the fence? :|
U want Humour ,here it is
PAKISTAN IS SUCH A TINY NATION, EVEN IF HALF THE INDIAN POPULATION GETS UP AND "PEE" AT ONE TIME, PAKISTAN WILL BE WASHED AWAY.
3/10
you'll have to do better than that.
you'll have to do better than that????
What?? U want to be humiliate again??
whats with u paki,do u always end up in losing .its in ur blood or something.
we humiliated u in 1965 n then u come back again to be humiliated in 1971.
poor bastards...
Quit using text speak, children and chavs do that.
"U want to be humiliate again??"
should be "Do you want to be humiliated again??"
"its in ur blood or something"
should be "Is it in your blood or something?"
"we humiliated u in 1965 n then u come back again to be humiliated in 1971."
This should've been "We were humiliated when a fresh 18 year old tiny nation kicked our arse in 1965 so we ran to the UN asking for a cease-fire, more so as our airforce was annihilated and then in 1971 we took advantage of our neighbours internal issues by attacking them cuz we are oh so peace-loving"
Now, fuck off.
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