INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
PATNA: Cops in Bihar have begun investigation into an interesting case wherein a woman, mother of two children, started living with her
husband's younger sister and then registered a case with the local police, charging her in-laws with "kidnapping" her life-partner.The
police began the probe after 32-year-old Shukla Devi claimed she married her husband's sister Soni Devi, 18, after rejecting her marriage
with Pramod Das, a resident of Rosera block in Samastipur district.The couple were married 10 years ago and also had two children but a
twist in their life came some six months later when his wife married her sister-in-law and started living as husband and wife, throwing an
open challenge to the existing traditional norms."We entered into marriage since we loved each other," Shukla told reporters
When asked by the media why she married a girl when she is already married with her husband, she shot back, "Pati hua to kyha hua...Jahan
prem rahega, wahin na rahenge (What happened if he is my husband? Where there is love, we will stay)," Shukla said, adding "We are very
"I believe it is the heart which is the home of love
We both love from the bottom of our hearts
There is no entertainment from the heart but true love
Soni is very nice," she said.Her husband Das said he had no objection
"I am happy, if she is happy," Das said, adding his wife fell in love with his sister after which she started living with her.Family sources
said post marriage, the woman Shukla Devi not only changed his name as male (Suraj Kumar) but also her look by sporting short hair and
wearing male clothes to give her partner a feel of "husband"
The woman also planned for gender change and searched for its procedure but after watching some videos about the gender change involving
surgery, she panicked and dropped the plan.However, as the news earned a very bad name for her in-laws, they reached the spot and forcibly
took away Soni Devi with them, leaving Shukla angry who registered a case with the police
It was then that the matter came to light."We are aware of the news and have asked a lady inspector to probe the case
Based on the report, we will act on the matter," Rosera police station inspector Krishna Prasad told TOI on Tuesday
Saying the matter looks very controversial, the inspector said only a formal probe would bring the truth.
