Fake Anti-dowry poster girl
In 2003 there was a sensational case reported nation-wide of a “courageous” girl Nisha Sharma standing up to the bride groom and his relatives, refusing their last minute demand for dowry and getting the whole lot of them arrested. Praise and sympathy poured in from far and wide. Some gallant young men even offered to marry her without any dowry.
Recently the then bride-groom Munish Dalal, his mother and others were honorably acquitted after a nine year ordeal. The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gautham Buddh Nagar district in UP ruled that the charges were fake and was made up by the girl to escape the wedding. It is now reported that before the much publicized wedding in 2003, Nisha Sharma had secretly married one Navneet Rai at a temple even without the knowledge of her parents, but continued to live with her parents. When the parents came to know about it, they locked up Nisha in the house and advertized for her marriage in newspapers. Mother of Munish answered the advertisement and in due course the marriage was fixed. At the marriage Munish, his mother and his aunt were arrested as widely reported then. Munish lost his job. His mother a Government Servant about to retire lost her pension and provident fund. His brother had to close down his shop. The family was ostracized by the society. It was such a big calamity for them. They got relief only when Rai came forward and claimed that he had married Nisha, before the much publicized marriage.
I would like to see the comments of the women’s brigade, Madam Roshni, Madam Utpala Kaur and others.