Bihar groom drinks poison day after wedding

Patna: A groom committed suicide in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district after his neighbours taunted him about his bride’s dark complexion, police said on Tuesday.

Rajesh Mandal committed suicide by consuming a poisonous substance on Monday, a day after his marriage, after some women from his neighbourhood made snide remarks about a fair-complexioned groom getting a dark-complexioned bride, police said.

“He was shocked and angry... he ended his life by consuming poison,” a police officer said.

Before dying, he told his elder brother Sanjay that he consumed poison because he was unhappy with the selection of a dark-complexioned bride for him.

“Rajesh was admitted to a hospital in a critical condition where he died on Monday,” the officer said.