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Indian
brides from impoverished families, dressed in wedding finery, wait for their
grooms to arrive during a mass marriage ceremony in New Delhi, India when 12
couples tied the knot in a single ceremony organized by a social organization,
that would otherwise have cost each family thousands of dollars. (AP
Photo/Saurabh Das)
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An Indian
bride walked out of her wedding ceremony after the groom failed to solve a
simple math problem, police said Friday.
The bride
tested the groom on his math skills and when he got the sum wrong, she walked
out.
The
question she asked: How much is 15 plus six?
His reply:
17.
AP report continues:
The
incident took place late Wednesday in Rasoolabad village near the industrial
town of Kanpur in northern Uttar Pradesh state, local police officer Rakesh
Kumar said Friday.
The
groom's family tried persuading the bride to return, but she refused. She said
the groom had misled them about his education.
"The
groom's family kept us in the dark about his poor education," said Mohar
Singh, the bride's father. "Even a first grader can answer this."
Local
police mediated between the families and both sides returned all the gifts and
jewelry that had been exchanged before the wedding, Kumar said.
Last
month, another bride in Uttar Pradesh married a wedding guest after the
original groom had a seizure and collapsed at the wedding venue.
The
groom's family had not revealed that the groom was epileptic. While the groom
was rushed to a hospital in Rampur town, the bride asked one of the wedding
guests to step in and married him.
Most marriages in
India are arranged by the families of the bride and groom. Except for brief
meetings, the couple rarely gets to know each other before the nuptials.
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