Patna: Some married men in Bihar are currently encountering a bizarre marital problem — being ruthlessly discarded by their wives for being “unattractive”. In the past one month, at least three newly-wed brides have abandoned their husbands for being “ugly” and “unfit matches”.
On December 9, a newly-wed bride from Muzaffarpur district dumped her husband for being “ugly”, barely five days after they entered into wedlock. “I agreed to marry the groom whose face I had not seen before for the sake of my parents’ happiness but when I reached my in-laws’ home after marriage and saw his [husband’s] face from [up] close, a sudden feeling of disgust and hatred gripped my mind. He was too ugly.
Finally, I decided to abandon him,” the girl told the women police in Patna on Wednesday.
“I will never go back to him come what may,” she asserted.
Initially, she stayed with her friends in Patna, but finally when she came to realise the legal troubles involved in staying with them, she called up the Patna city’s superintendent of police Shivadeep Lande and narrated her problem in detail.
A similar incident was reported from Gardanibag locality of the state’s capital earlier this month when a newly-married woman fled her in-laws’ house barely a day after her marriage. Shortly after the incident, her parents registered a case of kidnapping, but the truth came to light soon after the police recovered the woman, who had been living with her boyfriend, on December 19.
During the interrogation, she told the police that she rejected her husband since he was “much older, uglier, and an unfit match”.
Another girl from Gardanibag locality left her husband a fortnight ago for a similar reason.
Police said this woman had mysteriously disappeared from her husband’s home about a fortnight ago after which her parents registered a case of murder against her in-laws.
In course of investigation, however, the police traced her location to Bikram locality in Patna and found her living with her boyfriend. “During interrogation, she told us she left her husband as she did not like [his] face,” the local police inspector BK Chauhan was quoted as saying in the local media.
She also told the police her husband would always quarrel with her and hence decided to stay with her boyfriend.
Social scientists blame this trend on the growing quest among the new generation for “perfection”, rather than the “empowerment of the female class”. “The new generation looks misguided, totally unaware about the harsh reality of life. This is certainly not their awareness for empowerment,” said a social scientist Sachindra Narayan.
