dead body of his wife who lay in a postmortem room of a government
hospital after hanging herself from a ceiling fan on Wednesday.
Local media on Thursday reported that the incident took place at
Biharsharif town in Nalanda district of Bihar, 80km south of Patna,
capital of Bihar state.
According to reports, Pushpa Kumari, wife of Sujit Kumar from
Parasdiha village in the central Bihar's Nalanda district, committed
suicide at her in-laws' house on Wednesday.
Her body was then brought for postmortem at the local government hospital.
News of her death reached the victim's parents, who rushed to the
hospital and threatened to register a murder case against the in-laws
accusing them of forcing the girl to end her life.
The victim's parents reportedly then asked the in-law's family to
allow the widower to marry the victim's younger sister Rashmirathi,
which Sujit's family agreed to.
The story took a dramatic turn when the girl's parents asked the boy
to marry his sister-in-law then and there at the hospital.
Soon a packet of vermilion was brought from the market as the boy
married his sister-in-law by applying vermilion on her hair as the
dead body of his wife lay at the postmortem room of the hospital
apparently as a witness. [GN]