“A bride collapsed and died at her wedding. The groom then married the woman’s sister with her dead body lying in the next room.”
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The day's festivities continued, however, but with a different bride. While Surabhi's body lay in another room in the house, the nuptials carried on with her younger sister Nisha replacing her.
"We did not know what to do in the situation. Both the families sat together and someone suggested that my younger sister Nisha should be married to the groom," Surbhi's brother Saurabh told the
local news channel TV9.
Arranged marriage is not uncommon in India.
"Most Indian marriages are arranged between families, not girl and boy whose consent is rarely factored into the equation," said Kamei Aphun, a sociology professor at Delhi University told the
South China Morning Post.
Janaki Abraham, a professor at Delhi University, told SCMP that the families may have been pressured to make a match because of the expense of throwing a wedding.
"Indian marriages, even among the lower classes, are expensive affairs where even the poorest of poor have to organize lavish functions in the name of 'family honor,'" she said.
"It was a tough call for our family. One daughter lay dead in one room and the wedding of another daughter was being solemnized in the other room," Surabhi's uncle Ajab Singh told TV9.
"We have never witnessed such mixed emotions," Singh said. "The grief over her death and the happiness of the wedding have yet to sink in."