Devender Dangi
Rohtak, May 19
Following the intervention of Rohtak police, a two-day-old gotra row that triggered off by a village panchayat of Schedule Caste at Samain village in Meham town, about 30 km from here, was cordially sorted out on Tuesday evening.
The panchayat has not only withdrawn its dictum in which it had directed the newly wed couple to either annul their marriage or desert their village within ten days but also allowed them to live as husband and wife in the village. According to sources, SHO of Meham Police Station, Telu Ram, had gone to the village after getting directives from Rohtak SSP regarding the gotra controversy on Tuesday evening and succeeded in persuading the panchayat’s members to roll back its decision after holding a long discussion with them over the issue.
Rohtak SSP, A.K. Rao, said our officials went to the village and held a meeting with the panchayat members. Ultimately, they convinced them to take back their illogical verdict and then the panchayat pronounced to take back its decision. “We have reached a compromise with bride groom’s family. Now, they can live here as husband and wife. We have no problem with it,” a panchayat member said. Notably, Kulwant Maidal tied the knot with Sushila Badgujjar, a resident of Dadula village in Panipat district, on Sunday.
The wedding landed into a controversy when some baaraties during the marriage ceremony objected the marriage after learning that Sushila’s mother belonged to Bahamnai gotra.
On Monday, the irate villagers convened a panchayat in the village and termed the marriage illegal as per the local custom. At the end, the panchayat pronounced its diktat directing the groom family to either annul the marriage or get out of the village within next ten days or face forced eviction from the village.
The panchayat said that the groom family violated an age-old social custom which proscribes nuptial relationship between such a girl/boy in Samain village whose fathers, mothers or grandmothers, any one of them, belongs to Bahamnia gotra, as majority of residents hailing from SC community in the village belong to the same gotra.
Terming the panchayat’s diktat as “unethical”, the couple had categorically refused to oblige the panchayat in any situation. The couple had said that they would not bow to the “Talibani” verdict of the panchayat at any cost and would not hesitate to seek police protection if the panchayat tried to mount pressure on them and their families for accepting its “wrong” judgement.
(EoM)
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