Community ostracises woman touched by outsider

AMRAVATI: Want to see just how deeply superstition remains rooted even in today’s society? Visit Mangrul Chavala village, around 50km from Amravati,where a woman from the Pardhi community was ostracized from the community. Read More................Community ostracises woman touched by outsider

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Boy marries two sisters at a time

In India there are many communities where bigamy or polygamy is quite prevalent. These are mainly some tribes in India which are having such practices since time immemorial. Among such communities, there is one community in Maharashtra state of India called " Madia Gond Community" in which recently one young man married two girls at the same time.

In the first marriage ceremony of its kind for which proper invites went out to all families in the village, 27-year old Dharma Madavi took the hand of two sisters - Wangi (26) and Pali (22) - and exchanged nuptial vows with them as the village folk blessed the threesome.

The solemnization climaxed a series of tribal marriage rituals and a daylong ceremony complete with the 'rela' dance in which all the guests participated with gusto.

While the instance of a boy tying the knot with two girls at the same altar simultaneously was unusual, bigamy is quite common in the Madia Gond and many other tribal communities.

Reached for his reaction to the bigamous marriage, Sironcha sub divisional police officer Vinay Rathod said that legal procedural rules did not empower the police to stop the marriage in the absence of a complaint from an aggrieved party, bigamy being a non-cognizable offence.

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