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Kanpur: "Pyaar humse kiya aur shaadi kisi aur se karoge? Yeh hum bardaasht nahi karenge," she declared as she grabbed him by his collar and dragged him away.

No, these aren't Deepika Padukone's dialogues from Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Ram-Leela. Nor are they lines from a desi chick-lit novel about a swashbuckling heroine's love affair.

This is a statement made by a woman from Uttar Pradesh's Hamirpur district, delivered very eloquently to the love of her life as he was in the process of marrying someone else.

The shocking and dramatic incident that took place on Tuesday is making waves around the country and has completely captured the nation's imagination. The story goes that Ashok Yadav, a compounder at a doctor's clinic had become romantically involved with his colleague. The couple was thoroughly infatuated with each other. However, as it happens in most love stories, their affair hit an obstacle when Ashok's marriage was arranged with another girl. After the engagement ceremony, Yadav started ghosting his girlfriend and stopped replying to all her messages.

On Monday night, as the wedding party was underway at Maudaha, the jilted girlfriend turned up in a car with a bunch of other men. Armed with a revolver, she uttered the above-mentioned dialogue, grabbed the groom by his collars, shoved him into her car and drove away.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of Maudaha is of the opinion that the abduction was staged.

"How can a woman kidnap a grown man in front of so many people? Nobody tried to stop them or save the groom. In reality, the man went away with the girl," he claimed.

To this effect, the police have arrested Yadav's brother and a few photographers.