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UP man arranges wife's marriage to her lover: ‘After seeing what happened in Meerut…’
The man has decided to keep the custody of his two children.
A man in Uttar Pradesh's Sant Kabir Nagar arranged his wife's marriage to her lover, citing security concerns in the wake of the Meerut murder case, PTI reported.
Bablu, a resident of the Katar Mishra village under the Dhanghta police station area, said that he was concerned about his own safety after learning about the case in Meerut.
In Meerut, Muskan Rastogi, along with her lover Sahil, are accused of killing her husband Saurabh Rajput in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut and hid the body inside a drum. The case has been in the spotlight for the last week.
Bablu, who worked as a labourer in another state, married Radhika, who was originally from the Gorakhpur district, in 2017. They have two children.
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According to locals, Radhika has been in a relationship with Vishal, who is also from the same village, for the past year and a half.
According to PTI, after Bablu discovered about his wife's affair, he asked Radhika to end it, but she refused. He then, instead of escalating the situation, decided to arrange their marriage.
Bablu took the two to Dhanghta Tehsil, where an agreement was made and the couple got married at a temple in the presence of villagers.
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"I decided to arrange their marriage to avoid potential harm to myself. In recent days, we have seen that husbands have been killed by their wives," Bablu told PTI.
"After seeing what happened in Meerut, I decided to get my wife married to her lover so that we both can live peacefully," he added. Bablu also added that he has decided to keep the custody of his two children.
On a question about the legality of his marriage, as he and Radhika are not divorced, he asserted that the marriage was legal because it took place in the presence of villagers and no family members have any objections.
