Parents find a groom for 4-yr-old, it's a dog

Parents find a groom for 4-yr-old, it's a dog
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

HARINGHATA (WB), JULY 13: It was her fourth birthday, and her parents celebrated it by marrying her off. It was not just another child marriage, the groom was a dog.

Anju, the youngest daughter of Subal Karmakar, was married off to a mongrel, belonging to her relative's family to ``ward off an evil eye.''

``After she was born, she cut her first tooth when she was only eight months, she broke her arm when she was two-years old, almost drowned six months later and burnt her legs accidentally in the kitchen just five months ago,'' Karmakar, an employee of Vidhan Chandra Agricultural University said. ``All these were considered inauspicious by my family and a result of the evil eye on Anju.''

A similar marriage had taken place in the family during Anju's great grandfather's time stemming from the same causes, he said.

``I've never heard of such an incident before,'' a startled Sub Divisional Officer Madhumita Roy said today. She said she had been informed of the marriage by Block Development Officer Gautam Biswas.