By IANS
Bhopal : Activists of Hindu group Bajrang Dal who had vowed to get lover couples married if they are ‘caught’ on the Valentine’s Day here in Madhya Pradesh, were left high and dry as they could not find a single couple.
The ‘search operations’ of the group were on since Thursday morning and finally when they managed to find a couple and decided to get it ‘married’, it turned out that the couple was already married.
“When the cops reached the spot and took the couple away from Bajrang dal activists, the girl, Divya, and the boy, Abhishek, revealed that they were already married,” Additional Superintendent of Police G.K. Pathak told IANS here.
“It seemed to be a case of publicity stunt perpetrated by Bajrang Dal activist Rajesh Shrivastava, who has been detained,” he said.
‘Bajrangis’, as the activists are known in local parlance, Monday declared that they would “get such couples married and if they refuse to do so, the girl will be asked to tie a ‘rakhi’ (a thread establishing brother-sister relation) on the wrist of the guy accompanying her”.
Women groups, who had vowed to protect the young lovers from such moral policing, also patrolled the streets of the state capital to prevent the lovers from being harassed by the Bajrangis.
YAR (Youth Awareness Ring) – the youth wing of the Nari Kalyan Samiti, a voluntary organization, constituted a group of 30 students to protect the young couples from any kind of assault.
“We went around the city in different groups to see that nobody was harassed and fortunately no such incident happened,” said group secretary Manju Sharma.