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Groom Kidnapped and Ordered at Gunpoint to Call Wedding Off
On 6/4/21 at 11:57 AM EDT
Jugal Kushwaha, a resident of the town of Shahpur in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, was due to be married to a woman from a neighboring village on May 29. But he might have developed cold feet after the engagement nearly cost him his life.
On the night of May 22, Kushwaha was kidnapped from his wedding venue by three men and taken by motorcycle to an orchard. In the orchard, the men threatened to shoot him at the mandap a structure akin to an altar, according to brides.com if he did not call off the engagement and abandon his fiancé. They even made him call up his future in-laws and tell them he had lost all interest in marrying their daughter, a spokesperson for the police department told