Newly-Wed Bride Thrashes Groom With Iron Rod On First Night Of Wedding, Flees With Cash, Jewellery

Uttar Pradesh: In a shocking incident, a newly-wed bride thrashed her husband with an iron rod on the first night of their wedding and ran away with Rs 20,000 cash and jewellery worth Rs 2 lakh.

As per reports, the bride is a resident of Haridwar and groom is a resident of Kunda Khurd village in Bijnor.The couple got married at a temple on March 15 after being introduced by a matchmaker.

After the wedding, when the groom brought home his newly-wed bride, he was very happy. But all his hopes vanished when the bride hit him repeatedly with the iron rod and decamped from the house leaving him injured on the very couple’s first night together. the groom was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital with serious injuries.

Later, the groom said that the marriage was ‘staged’ and it was just a plot to rob his family. “I didn’t know what really happened. All of a sudden, my wife started thrashing me with a blunt object. I fell unconscious. Later, I came to know that she ran away with jewellery and Rs 20,000 cash.

A police complaint has been lodged by the grooms family.

Bijnor superitendent of police Dharamveer Singh said that he came to know about the incident after complaint was lodged.