Bhopal: There is a ghazal of Jagjit Singh – na umra ki seema ho, na jamna ka ho bandhan (let there be no boundary of age and birth). All is fair in love. Such an incident recently occurred in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh where a 32-year-old woman tied the knot with a 16-year-old boy.
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Minor as the boy is, the entire village Panchayat was witness to the wedding ceremony. The family members of the boy, however, complained to the police that he was forced to marry the woman. Their yarn of love has many spins. Both of them live in Khutar village of Singrauli,
According to some villagers, the family members of the boy had fixed his wedding with another girl on May 15. But before that could happen, the boy got spliced with his 32-year-old lover. On May 8, the woman reached the house of the boy and created a rumpus there. Consequently, the news spread like a wildfire. The Panchayat, too, came to know of it.
The Panchayat, then, called the woman and her boyfriend and wanted to know their wish. Both of them agreed to stay together as husband and wife. Therefore, the Panchayat members gave their judgement in favour of the marriage. After that, both of them tied the knot.
As they were getting hitched, the family members of the girl, with whom the marriage of the boy had been fixed, reached the place of the wedding. The Sarpanch (village head) pacified them. The kin of the boy lodged a complaint at the police station that the minor boy was being forced to marry a woman who is just twice his age.
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Sources said that the woman had been married twice earlier and divorced, besides she was in a family way. The boy fell in love with the woman a year ago. The father of the boy complained to the superintendent of police that his son had run away with cash and jewellery.
