JABALPUR: In a bizarre incident in Gwalior, police arrested a bridegroom for raping a guest on his wedding day.The incident occurred in Murar colony on June 3, the day Janak Singh, a 25-year-old painter was to get married. According to the complained filed by the victim, Janak took advantage of the crowd and commotion, slipped into her room and raped her. For next two days, the girl was too terrified and traumatized to share her ordeal with anyone. However, later she told her aunt, who accompanied her to Murar police station to lodge an FIR, sub-inspector Virendra Singh Kushwaha told TOI on Friday.

The victim, Kushwaha said, happens to be a close relative of the bride, who had come specially to attend the wedding from Narsinghpur. Meanwhile, Singh has been arrested and remanded to police custody, he said.

