Summary Events took an ugly turn when three cousins of the bride came to visit the couple.
ODISHA (Web Desk) - Just after six days of marriage, an Indian man married off his wife to her lover.
28-year-old Basudep Tappo is a resident of Palmara village, in the Indian state of Odisha. He tied knot with a 24-year-old woman from a village in Jharsuguda in an arranged marriage.
In accordance with the customs of the community, the two were married without signing any legal papers. Events took an ugly turn when three cousins of the bride came to visit the couple.
Two of them later went away to look around the village however; the third one stayed at home. The family and the villagers considered it odd that a strange man is staying alone in the house with the newly-wed bride.
Enraged by the situation, they all gathered and beat the man. The woman then came to her rescue and told that the cousin was actually his lover whom her family did not approve of.
After hearing his new wife’s explanation, Basudep Tappo came up with a peaceful solution and suggested that the woman marry her lover as well.
The man then contacted his wife’s family and organized a second wedding for her wife. “The lives of three people would have been destroyed had I not done this. This was the only solution. Now all of us can be happy,” Tappo said.
Basudep’s mother, Sanibari Tappo, praised his wisdom, telling the Times of India that he had made the best decision, under the circumstances.
“Our lives would have become more complicated had this solution not been reached,” the woman said. “We will never forget his contribution.”
“When we came to know of Basudep’s decision, we felt that it was the most appropriate thing to do in such a situation. So the entire village came forward to support his wife’s second marriage,” said Gajendra Bagh, the head of Pamara village.
