Groom walks out of wedlock protesting absence of mutton at feast, marries one other girl

By Express News Service
JAJPUR:  A person walked out on his bride on the marriage day after her household didn’t serve mutton within the feast at Sukinda on Wednesday. The 27-year-old groom, recognized as Ramakant Patra, later married one other girl of the realm earlier than returning house. Bizarre however true.

Sources stated Patra, a resident of Rebanapalaspal in neighbouring Keonjhar district, reached Bandhagaon village in Sukinda block with baraatis in a procession to marry on Wednesday afternoon. On reaching the venue, they had been welcomed by the bride’s household and after obligatory rituals,  taken to the eating corridor for lunch.

Before the meals was served, members of the marriage social gathering demanded mutton curry. As the identical was not ready, the baraatis entered into an argument with the bride’s members of the family and people serving meals. The state of affairs turned ugly and shortly blew out of proportion. When Patra got here to know that mutton had not been cooked for the marriage social gathering, he known as off the wedding taking everybody abruptly.

Though the bride’s members of the family pleaded with him and tried to influence him to alter his thoughts, all their efforts went in useless because the groom left the place alongside along with his kin. Patra went to a relative’s home at Gandhapala village of Kuhika panchayat in Sukinda the place they stayed for the remainder of the day.

He later married one other girl of Phulajhara in Tamka the identical evening earlier than returning to Keonjhar, sources stated. No grievance was lodged with the native police on this connection. Such high-handedness by grooms and their households was reported within the Eighties.