India’s rogue “grooms”
I saw the Passionate Eye documentary on Indian grooms based abroad who go home, take brides, collect massive dowries, then return to the west without the brides. These “runaway grooms” use the wedding as elaborate scam to extort money from families before dissapearing.
A prospective groom carries great status in India if he is a permanent resident or citizen of a Western country, like Canada. After the bride’s family pays an initial dowry and the wedding takes place, the groom usually returns to the West, promising to file papers for his new wife so she can join him. But in a growing number of cases, once the groom is safely back home, he or his family typically demand a new dowry ranging from $5,000 to $50,000.
- Clearly a call for an “India’s most wanted” transatlantic TV show; people should band together and have a TV show that identifies the fraudsters (via engagement/wedding photos/videos). That way, their peers here in North America know what they’ve been up to and viewers back home in India can identify and shame the fraudsters’ relatives who helped to perpetrate the crime.
- I also think its quite jacked up that in this day and age that a woman and her family have to pay a man in order to marry and serve him. I mean, would you pay your boss to work for him, oh, and give him sex too?
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