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MASS HAPPINESS: Mass marriages are ways for the poor to solemnise weddings at lower costs.

MASS HAPPINESS: Mass marriages are ways for the poor to solemnise weddings at lower costs.

Virginity tests anger brides

At a mass wedding in Madhya Pradesh just before the ceremony was to begin, a would-be bride developed labour pains, shocking those present. Faced with allegations of solemnising 'fake marriages', the local authorities ordered the virginity and pregnancy tests. But the move to weed out already-married brides has kicked up a storm with activists taking up the issue.

SKELETONS TUMBLE OUT: Post-mortems in open is a common practice in Madhya Pradesh.

In MP, autopsy held under a tree

In MP's Shahdol, a murder victim's postmortem was carried out in the open and the state health minister admitted it was a common practice.

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