Rahul and Shivani were meant to get married tomorrow – but the groom has abandoned his bride in favour of her mother and has also made off with all her jewellery
A groom faces allegations that he ran away with his soon-to-be mother-in-law just 10 days before his wedding ceremony.
A shock to all, the 20-year-old groom has reportedly made a run for it with the mother of his intended – twice his age. When you couldn’t believe it could get worse, the Indian man and his 40-year-old new partner also stole the savings of the bride’s – and her daughter’s – family, as well as all her jewellery, so that they could pay for their runaway affair.
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Rahul and Shivani, from Aligarh, India’s Uttar Pradesh state, were in the last leg of marriage preparations with their soon-approaching wedding set for tomorrow, April 16. Traditional wedding Invitations had been mailed, attendees having RSVP’d, and outfits bought before the unimaginable happened.
With the young groom vanishing from the preparations, many would have expected to make a ‘break for it’ alone. Controversially, he picked the most unlikely of replacements in Anita, the mother of the bride he had intentionally left at the altar… Taking they typical ‘cold feet’ five steps further, the duo stole the couple’s savings and Anita’s family savings also, leaving the insulted bride and her father abandoned and penniless.
On April 6, Rahul made the excuse of buying his (very last minute) wedding outfit, reported the Daily Star. In the evening of that day, he made a phone call to his father admitting to having ran away and instructing his family to not send out a search party for him. Meanwhile, the jilted bride Shivani became aware of her mother’s absence, discovering that along with her Anita, her savings had also disappeared. Heartbreakingly, her mother had not left any explanation.
Whilst both daughter and father, Kumar, had observes a strange bond forming between Rahul and Anita, they did not discuss their concerns so as not to negatively effect the upcoming wedding. Emotionally shattered, Shivani spoke to NDTV, saying: “I was supposed to marry Rahul on [Wednesday] April 16, and my mother eloped with him on Sunday,” revealing that “Rahul and [her] mother used to talk on the phone a lot over the past three to four months”.
She opened up about her mother stealing away all their money, continuing to state: “She can do what she wants now, we don’t care. All we want is that the money and [the] jewellery should be returned to us”. Anita’s husband and father-of-the-bride, Kumar, is a businessman working Bengaluru and is therefore often away from home. He has also mentioned noting how Rahul appeared to speak more to his wife rather than his daughter – Rahul’s actual fiancée.
However, Kumar opted for silence, in spite of all his suspicions, as the wedding was closing in and he feared being the cause of a disaster striking – something that now seems inevitable. Since their wild elopement, Kumar has filed a missing persons report on the pair with the aims of finding the runaways. On the affair, Kumar recalled calling his wife “several times, but she had switched off her phone”. He also called the groom too, referring to Rahul as “the man”. Kumar opened up about how Rahul continued “denying that she was with him”.
Alarmingly, Rahul apparently admitted, “hours later,” that he had swept away Anita and told Kumar to forget his wife of two decades. Kumar described Rahul’s call which said: “I had troubled my wife for 20 years and that I should forget about her”.
Kumar went on, saying: “That man would not speak to my daughter but would keep talking to my wife. I live in Bengaluru to run my business. I had heard that, for the past three months, they would talk to each other for 22 hours a day. I was suspicious but did not say anything because the wedding was around the corner. Anita left with the man on April 6 and took all our cash and jewellery”. An update has yet to be shared.
