Hello Everyone,
My sister’s marriage has been called off from the grooms side after engagement. The reason given to us is that our father has a dominant nature and his family does not believe that this marriage can work. We pleaded with them in all possible manner not to cancel the marriage considering a girls future, however after all pleading they are not willing to listen anything. Surprisingly all this happened in one single day.
Both the family belongs to Uttar Pradesh from different district however the girl and boy is working in Delhi NCR. I am too settled in Delhi NCR and my sister stays with me. While initial discussion between families we agreed to pay 4 lakhs in cash and a car worth aprx 4 lakhs, with some general house hold items as a gift to our daughter and her groom. The engagement ceremony was celebrated in our native place in Uttar Pradesh in presence of aprx 100 people. On the day of engagement, we have paid 50 K in cash and 50 K by cheque to grooms family.
After engagement things were very good, the boy and girl started getting closer and happier. I even invited the groom on my house in Delhi NCR for lunch a day before all this happened. Everything was looking very nice and next day my father received a call from his parents and balanced cash of 3 Lakh was demanded. My father wanted to hold some money to be given during various ceremonies during Tilak and Marriage, however it was not liked by the groom’s parents and they threatened to cancel the marriage. On which my father got upset and pleaded with them that its not right. After that they are blaming my father of being rude and cancelled the marriage claiming the wrong behaviour of my father.
We tried to plead and expressed our apologies throughout the day, but before the day ended they have declare their unwillingness for marriage and asked for our bank account detail for returning the cash they have taken.
We are in to mental sock and very much worried about our girl’s future. She has been emotionally involved and going through a deep mental stress.
Please help me with available legal action we can take against them to teach them a lesson. They should know breaking marriages in such stage is not so easy. Off course now even if they agree we will be not willing to continue the marriage but we want to teach them a lesson so that they don’t ever do such things with anyone else.
I want to know what all options we have and whether we can file complain in the city where we lived and where engagement ceremony took place or we need to file complain in the city they belongs to.
Thanks in Advance for your advices.
Regards
AKD
