Bride rejects 'ugly and thin' groom

Patna: A groom had to return without getting married in a Bihar village after the bride refused to marry the man for his "ugly" looks.

Sarita Kumari, a resident of a village in Samastipur district, 70 km from here, stunned all when she refused to marry Jilajit Sharma after she discovered that he was ugly and not a good match for her age-wise, local reports said yesterday.

But the humiliation did not end there for Sharma as the girl's parents held him hostage for two days demanding the money they had spent on arranging the marriage.

The groom was freed with the intervention of some influential local people later.

Sharma said Sarita rejected him saying "he was too thin and appears ugly". Sarita alleged that Sharma was not the groom his parents had presented before her family earlier.