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Greedy groom in jail after wedding
Chandravati's 19-year-old daughter Lakshmi, a Class VIII dropout, has done something not many would dare to.
Chandravati's 19-year-old daughter Lakshmi, a Class VIII dropout, has done something not many would dare to: She handed over her husband and father-in-law to the police, for allegedly demanding dowry, barely hours after her marriage on Sunday.
"He was hurling abuses ever since he came to the marriage venue. At first he said he wanted a bike. Later he refused to marry me and said he'll set me afire even if he married me.
No girl would have heard the kind of abuses I heard during the jaimala and phera ceremonies. But when he misbehaved with my parents, I decided enough was enough.
A man who cannot respect my parents couldn't have respected me," says Lakshmi, fighting back her tears. Daughter of an auto-driver, Lakshmi is the fourth of six children.
"It was with great difficulty that my father got my sisters married. And to marry me off, he sold one of the two auto-rickshaws that he owned and borrowed heavily from relatives and friends.
Our house is small and we even rented a room in the neighbourhood to keep the household items my parents were giving me. How could he not see our pain?" she asks, sitting in her small two-room house in Najafgarh.
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