After three years of litigation, a Delhi man’s family realised on Friday that breaking a marriage alliance after enjoying the engagement party made them liable to reimburse the cost.
In 2012, a government doctor finalized the marriage of his son, who was in the real estate business, with a girl from Thane in Maharashtra. The ‘roka’ (engagement ceremony) took place in Delhi on June 8, 2012. The girl’s parents spent lavishly in entertaining the prospective groom’s family and friends.
But the boy’s family later called off the alliance claiming that the girl’s family had suppressed facts about her. Infuriated by the turn of events, the girl’s parents filed a case under Section 420 (cheating) of IPC against the boy and his father in Thane.