Patna: A newly-wed bride filed a case of dowry and attempt to murder against the groom minutes after their wedding had been solemnized in Bihar.
In Rajendra Nagar locality in Patna, the capital of Bihar, on Saturday, the groom, Baibhav Anand, a manager with a private airlines company in Delhi, was arrested.
Reports said the couple met in 2012 on the social networking site Orkut. And while the site shut down two years later, the romance blossomed.
When the duo’s families found out about the relationship, they helped them marry. On Friday night, their marriage was solemnised at a local hall in the presence of guests.
On Saturday, when the bride and groom were set to ride to her in-laws’ home, witnesses said, their car had gone barely 150 metres when the ornately dressed bride jumped out of the car and started running towards the marriage hall, crying, “Save me, save me.”
The scene of a gussied up bride running on the road seeking help drew a large crowd. She was then taken to the local Kadamkuan police station by her family members, and a case was registered against her husband.
In her complaint, she charged the groom with passing casteist remarks, seeking dowry and attempting to kill her.
Eventually, the groom was arrested and sent to jail.
“We have arrested the groom and are sending him to jail on the basis of the complaint registered by the bride,” a local police official, Ajay Kumar, told media on Sunday. The police are investigating the case but said they have not come across such an incident in the past.
