A man kidnapped and forced to marry at gunpoint- old tradition Bihar

Patna, Jan 05: Vinod Kumar, a techie travelled to Patna by train with a friend on December 2 to attend another friend's wedding at Islampur. He was kidnapped by men armed with guns, he was forced to sit in a Scorpio and was brought to Surendra Yadav's house. He was forced to marry a girl at gunpoint. The video of forced marriage has gone viral.

When the man tried to resist, the girl's family screams at him and says, 'Shut up – we're only marrying you, not hanging you.'

This is an old tradition in Bihar, called 'pakadua shadi' (forced marriage) where man is kidnapped and forced to marry.

Vinod Kumar, works as a junior manager at Bokaro Steel Plant (BSP) in Jharkhand’s Bokaro.The forced wedding took place at Pandarak in Patna district.

Vinod's brother Awadesh had been quoted saying that the police is not helping them. "He (Vinod) was forced to marry the girl at her house at gunpoint on December 3. He was abducted by her brother, Surendra Yadav, in a Scorpio car the previous night. Police are not helping us," said Awadesh, adding that it was a conspiracy to abduct his brother and force him to get married. The Pandarak police station has asked the boy's family to file a complaint at Mokama as the incident occurred there. Surprisingly, marriages by abduction have been on the rise in Bihar.