Complaint filed against Liz-Nayar wedding

The complaint says the celebrity couple has made a mockery of Hindu customs.

Now that the merrymaking is over, Liz Hurley and Arun Nayar may be in for a bit of trouble.

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A criminal complaint has been filed in a lower court against the Indian-style wedding of British model-actress Hurley and India-born businessman Nayar in Jodhpur saying the celebrity couple had made a mockery of Hindu customs.

Vishnu Khandelwal, who filed the case, has maintained that Hurley and Nayar had made a mockery of Hindu customs and traditions and hurt the feelings of Hindus by marrying according to their religious custom, in spite of the fact that Hurley was not a Hindu and nor had she embraced the religion.

Khandelwal said: "As Liz Hurley is neither a Hindu nor has she accepted Hinduism, she has hurt the religious sentiments of the community by marrying in Hindu style."

Moreover, the couple had got married on March 3 at a church ceremony in England during which Nayar accepted Christianity, after which they had their honeymoon and attended post-wedding parties.

"Just to make a mockery of Hindu religion they got remarried in a traditional way. It must be for the first time in the history wherein persons have got re-married after getting married once," Khandelwal said, adding that it is a criminal offence and demanded that a case be registered against them under the Indian Penal Code.

The couple had married in traditional Indian style at a grand function on March 9 amid chanting of the Vedic hymns.