PATNA: Cops in Bihar have begun investigation into an interesting case wherein a woman, mother of two children, started living with her husband's younger sister and then registered a case with the local police, charging her in-laws with "kidnapping" her life-partner.The police began the probe after 32-year-old Shukla Devi claimed she married her husband's sister Soni Devi, 18, after rejecting her marriage with Pramod Das, a resident of Rosera block in Samastipur district.The couple were married 10 years ago and also had two children but a twist in their life came some six months later when his wife married her sister-in-law and started living as husband and wife, throwing an open challenge to the existing traditional norms."We entered into marriage since we loved each other," Shukla told reporters.
When asked by the media why she married a girl when she is already married with her husband, she shot back, "Pati hua to kyha hua...Jahan prem rahega, wahin na rahenge (What happened if he is my husband? Where there is love, we will stay)," Shukla said, adding "We are very happy after marriage".
"I believe it is the heart which is the home of love.
We both love from the bottom of our hearts.
There is no entertainment from the heart but true love.
Soni is very nice," she said.Her husband Das said he had no objection.
"I am happy, if she is happy," Das said, adding his wife fell in love with his sister after which she started living with her.Family sources said post marriage, the woman Shukla Devi not only changed his name as male (Suraj Kumar) but also her look by sporting short hair and wearing male clothes to give her partner a feel of "husband".
The woman also planned for gender change and searched for its procedure but after watching some videos about the gender change involving surgery, she panicked and dropped the plan.However, as the news earned a very bad name for her in-laws, they reached the spot and forcibly took away Soni Devi with them, leaving Shukla angry who registered a case with the police.
It was then that the matter came to light."We are aware of the news and have asked a lady inspector to probe the case.
Based on the report, we will act on the matter," Rosera police station inspector Krishna Prasad told TOI on Tuesday.
Saying the matter looks very controversial, the inspector said only a formal probe would bring the truth.