Brides are stolen everywhere, and in India, grooms! (7 photos)

This practice is not widespread, but only in poor areas of India. It is funny that traditional marriages are accepted throughout India: to propose to the bride, to dress her up for the marriage with a dowry. But it is precisely the traditions that have prompted the brides' families to take desperate measures! Sometimes the amount of the dowry is so large that it is easier to kidnap the groom than to save up for the wedding!





Kunaks of a girl in love!

In the Indian state of Bihar, families with girls of marriageable age hire poor bandits to kidnap a man from a good family on request. The bride is lucky if she has brothers, she won't have to pay, her father and brothers will steal something better for her themselves.

The size of the dowry in India

The amount depends on the caste of the bride. So in the highest caste, where doctors and architects are, you need to pay 400 thousand rupees. Simple artisans can save up 100 thousand rupees, but this is an unaffordable amount for them.

They run, they run 400 thousand rupees!

It is much cheaper to hire bandits, so the social phenomenon of marriage through kidnapping - "akadwa shaadi" - appeared.

How often do they kidnap men

Every year more and more! This is already a social phenomenon. For example, in 2009, 1,337 cases of groom kidnapping were reported, and ten years later, 2,600 rubles were already registered.





They live in poverty, where do they get 100 thousand rupees from!

In some poor villages in Bihar, almost 90% of marriages are the result of kidnapping. And these are only those who honestly admitted it, usually men are ashamed to admit that they were forced into marriage by force.

How men are forced to marry

Beatings, weapons, and also captivity, where they are not given food or water. How cute you are getting married! When the marriage is already officially concluded, some grooms are allowed to call their family and say that they are alive (but not very healthy).



Didn't want to get married. Still doesn't want to

When men decide to run away and tell the police, the marriage is most often annulled. However, women are not always to blame for what happened. They also marry against their will at the insistence of their fathers and brothers. More often than not, new families do not want to accept daughters-in-law imposed by force.



Show me which one you want to get, sister!

But there are also positive cases when the kidnapped man saw the girl for the first time and was charmed by her. For example, Brahmanad Jha was kidnapped 20 years ago and considers it a great happiness, in his forced marriage there are already 5 children.

A great plot for a movie, I wonder if Bollywood makes films on such acute social topics, or prefers to stay within the framework of a rosy fairy tale, far from reality?

The terrible flip side

Some men who agreed to a forced marriage killed their wives to free themselves. They needed to lull the attention of their relatives in order to seize the moment to slip out of the village. By this time, the wife was already dead and lying in the house.



And a wedding in India looks like a fairy tale!

It happened that the wrong man was kidnapped by mistake. But there was nothing to be done, and the poor guy was still forced to marry, because the bandits had already been paid.

The police are loyal to the statements of men about such kidnappings, punishing the criminals. But still, not all men report, because they are simply ashamed that they got married out of fear under threats.



Citizens, return what was stolen!