Forced marriage of teachers
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Bihar has been infamous for forced marriages or forced marriages. A few days after the marriage of a young man who became a teacher from Bihar Public Service Commission, after hearing another case, the Patna High Court had declared such marriages invalid. But when the matter reached the Supreme Court, the High Court’s decision was stayed. Now a similar case of forced marriage of a BPSC teacher has come to light from Jamui, Bihar. This marriage is forced, but there is a long story behind such a marriage taking place in Kharmas. And, this story has reached the end in the form of love, family consent and then forced marriage after distance after getting a job.
First there was love and then the marriage was arranged.
The marriage took place at Gidhaur Shiv Temple in Gidhaur police station area. Actually, the story is from Jamui district, where the marriage of Mukesh Kumar Verma, son of Satyanarayan Verma, resident of Veldari village of Bamdah under Chakai block, was fixed two years ago as per Hindu customs with Purnima Kumari alias Sapna, resident of Kenduadih village adjacent to Bamdah under Chakai block. Was. Both of them were in love with each other since 2015 before the marriage was fixed. After getting the information, both of their families fixed the marriage. After the marriage was fixed, the intensity of love between Mukesh and Purnima kept increasing and now both of them started talking to each other for hours. They started swearing to live and die together. Then both Chakai Bazaar and Deoghar started coming and going and during this time meetings also started taking place.
Love changed after becoming a BPSC teacher
After the marriage was finalized, Mukesh passed the BPSC examination for teacher recruitment last year and got selected for the post of teacher and for the last six months, for training, he was working as an assistant teacher in the upgraded middle school Banjulia of Gidhaur block. Whereas Purnima says that everything was fine between her and Mukesh till one year after their marriage. Ever since Mukesh passed the BPSC exam and got selected as a teacher, the attitude towards him had changed. For the last five months, neither Purnima’s phone was being received nor anyone wanted to have any relation with her.
Even the police did not help
Both their families also started getting worried due to Mukesh’s changed behaviour. Panchayat was called in the village several times regarding this matter. A lot of explanation was given to Mukesh and his relatives in the Panchayat, but Mukesh was not ready to listen to anyone. He was now adamant on breaking the marriage. Purnima told that last December also she had complained about Mukesh along with evidence in Gidhaur police station but the police did not help Purnima.
Family members forced marriage
Then, with the help of her family members, Purnima called Mukesh, who was living in a rented house at Road No. 2, Gidhaur Bazaar, on Wednesday night and got married to him as per Hindu customs in Shiv Mandir. The video of this forced marriage is now going viral on social media.
