Khalilabad (Uttar Pradesh), Mar 28: In a dramatic turn of events, a man in Uttar Pradesh’s Sant Kabir Nagar arranged his wife’s marriage to her lover, fearing for his own safety in the wake of the horrific Meerut murder case, PTI reported.
The man, Bablu, a resident of Katar Mishra village under the Dhanghta police limits, said he was worried after hearing about the Meerut case, where a woman named Muskan Rastogi and her lover, Sahil, allegedly killed her husband and hid the body in a drum.
Bablu, who works as a laborer in another state, married Radhika from Gorakhpur in 2017. The couple has two children. However, for the past year and a half, Radhika had been in a relationship with a man named Vishal from the same village.
When Bablu found out about the affair, he asked Radhika to end it, but she refused. Instead of escalating the situation, he decided to arrange their marriage. He took them to Dhanghta Tehsil, where an agreement was made, and they got married at a temple in the presence of villagers.
"I did this to protect myself. Recently, we have seen cases where husbands were killed by their wives. After what happened in Meerut, I decided it was best for everyone," Bablu told PTI.
Bablu has decided to keep custody of his two children. When asked about the legality of the marriage, as he and Radhika are not divorced, he insisted it was valid since it happened in front of villagers and no family members objected.
