In a surprising twist of events, a dowry demand by the groom\u2019s family during a wedding resulted in the groom and his friends being held captive and their heads allegedly tonsured by the family of the bride. This happened on Monday in Saheed-Zia-ul-Haq Park in Khurramnagar area of Lucknow\u2019s Indiranagar, where the bride is from.<\/p>\n
The groom, Abdul Kalam of Barabanki was getting a bike from the bride\u2019s family. But when he arrived with the baraat<\/em> of about 150 people, the groom apparently also wanted a gold chain and a bike of a different brand.<\/p>\n The girl\u2019s father and the groom had a heated conversation after which Kalam apparently called off the wedding. But some local residents allegedly caught the groom and his friends and held them captive in a room where their heads were tonsured.<\/p>\n Police were informed, and they rescued and freed the groom and his friends, a senior officer said.\u00a0The officer said that police had made an effort to calm both the families, but it didn\u2019t work.\u00a0A police complaint was lodged against the groom\u2019s family on dowry harassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a surprising twist of events, a dowry demand by the groom\u2019s family during a wedding resulted in the groom and his friends being held captive and their heads allegedly tonsured by the family of the bride. This happened on Monday in Saheed-Zia-ul-Haq Park in Khurramnagar area of Lucknow\u2019s Indiranagar, where the bride is from. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":3054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}