JIND: After months of waiting and an 11-day journey to reach West Bengal to marry his Facebook girlfriend, a 26-year-old man from Haryana’s Jind district tested positive for Covid-19 a day before they were to tie the knot.
Sandeep, who is from Nandgarh village near Jind’s Julana town, is now in isolation at his girlfriend’s home in Raiganj. He was to marry her in March, but the wedlock had been delayed due to the Covid lockdown.
He said he could not find a bride in Haryana because of the state’s skewed sex ratio, so he looked outside the state. Sandeep left for Delhi in a bus from Jind on July 10. He then travelled by train to Raiganj, where he reached on July 21 and approached the marriage registrar along with his girlfriend, Bharti Rani Sarkar, who sought his Covid-19 report before appearing in the office for signing documents. But as luck would have it, Sandeep tested positive on July 22.
Sandeep, who has studied till Class X, said he has an elder brother and a younger one, and their father died 21 years ago. The siblings live in the same house with their mother and grandmother. “My elder brother (29) got married to a woman from Bihar two years ago, but she left him. Thereafter, due to skewed sex ratio in Haryana, it was not possible to find a girl easily for marriage. In October of 2019, I came in contact with Bharti on social media and fell in love with her. She promised to marry me in March 2020, but lockdown was imposed. When train services resumed, I decided to go over there to solemnise the marriage, but now I am still waiting to get married,” he said.
Deputy civil surgeon Pale Ram Kataria said after getting the report from their Bengal counterparts, they had sent a team to Nandgarh to collect the samples of Sandeep’s family members.
Sandeep, who is from Nandgarh village near Jind’s Julana town, is now in isolation at his girlfriend’s home in Raiganj. He was to marry her in March, but the wedlock had been delayed due to the Covid lockdown.
He said he could not find a bride in Haryana because of the state’s skewed sex ratio, so he looked outside the state. Sandeep left for Delhi in a bus from Jind on July 10. He then travelled by train to Raiganj, where he reached on July 21 and approached the marriage registrar along with his girlfriend, Bharti Rani Sarkar, who sought his Covid-19 report before appearing in the office for signing documents. But as luck would have it, Sandeep tested positive on July 22.
Sandeep, who has studied till Class X, said he has an elder brother and a younger one, and their father died 21 years ago. The siblings live in the same house with their mother and grandmother. “My elder brother (29) got married to a woman from Bihar two years ago, but she left him. Thereafter, due to skewed sex ratio in Haryana, it was not possible to find a girl easily for marriage. In October of 2019, I came in contact with Bharti on social media and fell in love with her. She promised to marry me in March 2020, but lockdown was imposed. When train services resumed, I decided to go over there to solemnise the marriage, but now I am still waiting to get married,” he said.
Deputy civil surgeon Pale Ram Kataria said after getting the report from their Bengal counterparts, they had sent a team to Nandgarh to collect the samples of Sandeep’s family members.
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