Groom's family calls off wedding over low-quality sindoor

The wedding was called off after tilk ceremony on February 28

Arranged by their parents, a doctor and a civil engineer met each other and decided to get married. They spoke over the phone and exchanged messages. Everything was going as they wanted, until their tilak ceremony.

The families, along with guests, were holding the pre-wedding ceremony at Wada on February 28 and two days later the groom's side called off the wedding. The reason - the quality of the sindoor. Mother of the groom, engineer Neeraj Patil, said that she was insulted. Shocked, the bride's family filed a complaint against Neeraj, his parents and his uncle Kamlakar Patil.

Kamlakar had approached the woman's father Dilip Patil, 54, with the marriage proposal of Neeraj, a 27-year-old Vasai resident. Dilip is a farmer at Wada and his daughter is a doctor at J J hospital.

In his complaint, Dilip said they gave food and saree worth Rs 1 lakh to the groom's side and we decided to hold the engagement ceremony on May 14. "On March 1, we called Kamlakar to have a chat and asked how the function was. Shockingly, a day later, Neeraj called my daughter and told her that ‘your mother and you insulted my mother and did not respect my mother. My parents were insulted and I don't want to marry you anymore'. We were all in shock." "My daughter called Neeraj several times but he didn't answer. We also called them and went to their house, but we weren't allowed. We were thrown out of their building. We called the father and he also said we did not respect their family and that is why they have called off the wedding. They defamed my daughter and our family name," the father added in his complaint.
However, when the police inquired, Neeraj's family claimed that they called off the wedding because the woman's family used low quality sindoor.

Sub Inspector Rupali Gunde told mid-day, "We have registered an FIR based on a complaint from the woman's side, under Sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 417 (punishment for cheating), 500 (punishment for defamation) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC."

Neeraj's family told us that the woman's parents used low quality sindoor during the tilak ceremony, because of which they were insulted in front of their guests. They also told us that if the girl's parents had told them, then they would have brought good quality sindoor," Gunde said.