FREMONT — The bride whose wedding last weekend was marred by a massive parking lot brawl that left two people with critical injuries, including one in a coma, said Wednesday the melee was sparked by party-crashers who were asked to leave.

Manjeet Kaur, 25, of Fremont, told this newspaper that the fight started after a group showed up during the reception and, after being asked to leave, waited outside and attacked the wedding guests in the parking lot of the Royal Palace Banquet Hall.

“They were outsiders, a bunch of boys my husband and I did not know, who found out about the party and were harassing the girls, so somebody kicked them out,’’ Kaur said. “They were really pissed off for being asked to leave, so when the party was over, they jumped some of the guests outside and started fighting.’’

The two people hospitalized remained in critical condition Wednesday, including Daljit Gill, who authorities said is in a coma from “massive brain trauma.” The Missouri man suspected of causing his injuries, Amritpal Singh, 23, told police that he was drunk and doesn’t remember hitting Gill. He told officers that he was also hit in the head from behind by someone at the party, according to court documents.

The brawl occurred around midnight Saturday at the Royal Palace, 6058 Stevenson Blvd., where a catered reception was being held. The two people who were hospitalized both suffered head trauma, Fremont police Detective Michael Gebhardt said.

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Wedding reception brawl in Fremont involved almost 70 people, several injured, police say Police said the fight involved an estimated 70 people, and that Amritpal Singh and Gurpreet Singh were arrested.

Amritpal Singh was charged Wednesday with felony battery causing great bodily injury to Daljit Singh. The charges carry a special allegation that the victim is in a coma because of brain injury and is paralyzed. The charges call for prison time.

At his arraignment in a Fremont courtroom Wednesday afternoon, Amritpal Singh’s bail was set at $100,000, and he was ordered to return to court Friday to enter a plea. His public defender, and four friends who showed up at the arraignment, declined to comment.

Gurpreet Singh, 25, was initially arrested but was released Tuesday after the District Attorney’s Office requested further investigation as to his role in the fight. He struck Gill but was not the cause of Gill’s injuries, police wrote in court documents.

Both men fled the scene in a white Maserati, police said.

Gebhardt said they were part of a group of 700 that had been attending a wedding reception at the hall, which had hired four security guards.

Police were told the initial dispute started inside the hall, and the fighting spilled out into the parking lot, he said. Police are still investigating what started the dispute.

Royal Palace was supposed to provide seven security guards, but only two showed up and neither did anything to break up the fight, Kaur said. A person answering the phone at Royal Palace said the owner was out of town and not reachable by phone.

Four or five party-crashers initially arrived and called some friends, who later showed up and were there when the fight started, according to the bride. “There were about 30 guys total fighting with our guests who had told them to leave because they weren’t invited,” Kaur said. “They were mad about being asked to leave, and they were drunk.’’

Raja Singh, who owns a Fremont photography studio, said he was hired by the groom to shoot the wedding. He said he arrived at the Royal Palace around 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon and set up his equipment as guests started to arrive. Singh said that shortly after midnight, when around 200 guests were still at the event, the fight broke out.

“There was some kind of commotion inside the hall, some loud argument, and then people went outside and I saw 30 or 40 people fighting, beating each other up,’’ he said. “They were mostly using their hands and feet, but some of them had metal objects in their hands and were hitting people with them.’’

He said the fight lasted about 20 minutes, at which point the police began to arrive. When people heard the sirens, he said, many fled. “The police tried to block the exits, but many of the people who’d been fighting were already gone.”

Security guards had tried to break up the fighting but were overwhelmed, police said. About 20 officers from Fremont and Newark responded and eventually brought the chaos under control.

The bride said she didn’t know how the outsiders found out about the party, but she suspects some of the wedding guests may have told them.

“They ruined our party,’’ said Kaur. “It was a huge disappointment. And we’re especially angry with Royal Palace at how badly they ruined our wedding by not having enough security guards on hand. They had no backup plan.’’

She said she did not personally know the two people hurt in the fight but said one of them was in the intensive care unit at a San Jose hospital on Wednesday with “really bad head trauma.’’ She did not know any of the outsiders, either.

“When the fighting broke out,’’ she said, the two guards “did nothing. Family members ran to them for help, but they said, “Sorry, that’s not our job.'”

Staff photojournalist Anda Chu contributed to this report.