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AGRA: A police outpost in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad district turned into a wedding venue, after a love-couple was married off with great pomp and show, even as their parents turned against it.

The incident took place inside Ramnagar police outpost under Linepar police jurisdiction on Tuesday late night.

The couple - identified as Luvkush Verma (22) and Sonia Verma (20) - of Chharbagh locality of the town were in a relationship for more than a year. The two neighbours wanted to tie knot, but Sonia’s parents disapproved her relationship with Luvkush and fixed her marriage with other man.

On Tuesday afternoon, the girl escaped from her house and rushed to the local police outpost for help and met sub-inspector Umar Farooq, the in-charge of Ramnagar police.

Speaking to TOI, SI Umar Farooq said, “The girl narrated her story and threatened to commit suicide if she was not allowed to marry her beloved. After which I called her parents and her beloved Luvkush along with his parents to my office in order to better understand the real situation.”

“After listening to all the concern parties, we found that girl’s parents were not ready to wed their daughter with Luvkush, but since the girl was adult and had legal rights to choose her life-partner, we counselled parents with the help of their community men including senior citizens and social leaders. Finally, by evening with mutual consent from both parents of the couple, a wedding ceremony was organised inside our police outpost premises with Hindu rituals,” he added.

For the marriage, a music band, a priest and wedding dress for the bride was arranged with the help of Ramnagar police. Since the police outpost had a temple inside its premises, it was chosen as the venue for marriage with mutual consent of couple.

Several video clips of the wedding shot by local residents showed the couple taking oath and accepting each other as husband and wife in front of scores of men and women from their community and cops.

Premi Savita, BJP general secretary of Firozabad district, said, “We are extremely happy the way a Muslim cop took care of Hindu community sentiments and arranged wedding as per our rituals and traditions. The cop also avoided tragedy, as the couple had threatened to commit suicide if not allowed to live together.”

According to police, both Luvkush and Sonia family are in bangle making business.

