After deciding on Goa for "honeymoon", a man booked flight tickets to Ayodhya and Varanasi instead without informing his wife, ultimately resulting in a divorce application.
A couple, from Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal, is being counselled after the wife filed for divorce after eight months of marriage because her husband took her to Varanasi and Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh along with his parents instead of Goa for a honeymoon, an official said.
They got married on May 3 last year and the woman insisted on going on a honeymoon abroad citing that they were earning well, family Court marriage counsellor Shail Awasthi said, adding that the husband is an IT professional, while the woman works in a private company.
“The husband was reluctant to go abroad for honeymoon and later settled for Goa or somewhere in south India as possible destinations claiming he also had to look after his parents,” news agency PTI quoted Awasthi as saying.
The man booked flight tickets to Ayodhya and Varanasi without informing his wife and told her about the trip just a day before departure, Awasthi said.
“He told his wife his mother wanted to visit Ayodhya before the idol consecration of the Ram Temple. The woman did not object at the time but argued against it once the family returned and later filed for divorce."
The official said that the woman in her statement claimed the man took greater care of his parents than her.
The application for divorce is pending at the counselling stage and efforts are on for an amicable solution between the woman and her husband, Awasthi said.
