Disabled girls confined to room for years hoping for miracle

In Bhubaneswar city in Orissa state of India two handicapped sisters in Sambalpur district have been confined to a room for the past four years, praying for a miracle to cure them.

Hastina Majhi, 21, and her sister Binita, 15, have been living in a small room in their village Gudhrapada, some 400 km from here, after they developed skeletal deformities, suspected to be polio affliction. Read more.....................................Disabled girls confined to room for years hoping for miracle

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Two sisters married off to one man

A soothsayer's prediction led a father in a Bihar village to marry off his two daughters to a man at a village temple.

The groom, Sailendra Kumar alias Pintu, married two sisters - Aarti Kumari and Puja Kumari - at a Shiva temple in Phulwarisharif near Patna.

Sailendra, in his early 30s, walked around the holy fire seven times with both his brides simultaneously as priests chanted from the scriptures. He also applied vermilion on their foreheads, a Hindu mark of marriage.

The groom then signed an official document of the temple, declaring that he married the two sisters and would take care of them. Read more............................Two sisters married off to one man in Bihar

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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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