UP: Bollywood-style marriage; youth barges into classroom, puts sindoor on beloved

Bijnor, Sept 6: It seems like a Bollywood movie. Hero barged into a classroom and put sindoor (vermilion) on his beloved.

No, it was not a film, the incident indeed took place in a co-educational school in Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh.

18-year-old Sonu Kumar, a school drop-out entered into the school and put sindoor on the forehead of a tenth class student in front of her classmates and teacher before fleeing the spot.

A case has been registered against Sonu on the complaint of the girl's parents and the principal of the inter-college, police said on Saturday, Sept 5.

Senior police official Kadrabad Satya Pal Singh said efforts were being made to nab the accused.

Sonu, a resident of Murliwala village, was a student of class XI but left the college last year after failing in the annual examination, Singh said.

According to police, Kumar was in relationship with the girl, who belongs to the Dalit community and is two years younger to him. "Their relationship had ended due to caste difference," a police official said

On Friday, Kumar reached the inter-college with vermilion in his pocket and a rakhi in hand and entered the girl's classroom.

"When the teacher tried to stop him, Kumar said he had come to get rakhi tied by his 'adopted sister' and instead applied sindoor (vermilion) on her forehead," the official said.

OneIndia News
(With agency inputs)