Woman stops wedding of man, claims to be her wife; man booked

Kanpur: A woman stopped the wedding ceremony of a bridegroom from taking place by showing his family members photographs of her wedding with the same man on Thursday in Mangalpur area of Kanpur Dehat.
The woman who was going to marry the man, immediately called off the wedding. After finding out the matter, Kotwali police booked him under relevant sections of IPC.
The woman, hailing from Shivrajpur area of Kanpur Nagar, entered the marriage procession and claimed that the groom was her husband and is going to marry for the second time. Amid the chaos, Kotwali police reached the venue and detained the groom after stopping the marriage function.
The woman alleged that the man was hiding facts of his marital status. Eyewitnesses said that the groom, a native of Laljipurwa of Mangalpur town, had barely started heading towards Pukhraya for the marriage ceremony when the woman appeared in the scene and claimed to be his wife. An Argument followed between her and the groom’s family members when she she showed photographs of her marriage with the man, they added..
The groom and his family members claimed that they did not know her but the woman stood her ground. The groom even tried to flee but couldn’t as the woman alerted the local police.
Kotwali SSI Vishnukant Tiwari confirmed that there was a dispute over the man’s second marriage that was going to take place.
“We have detained and booked the groom on charges of disrupting law and order of the area,” he said.
Meanwhile, family of the bride whom the man was going to marry, said the girl had refused to marry the disputed man, informed police sources.