It is said that anything can bow down in front of love, however, amidst the time of lockdown this quote seems almost impossible. Love needs to be extra-ordinary if you need something to bow down. A similar kind of case has come into the limelight in Haryana's Rohtak.
A district magistrate court in Rohtak opened its doors on the night of April 13 to register the wedding of a Haryanavi man with a Mexican girl under the Special Marriage Act as both could not tie the knot due to the lockdown imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus.
As per reports, the couple met on a language learning app in 2017 and got engaged the next year. As per Niranjan Kashyap, who belongs to Surya Colony in Rohtak, his Mexican partner, Dana Joheri Oliveros Cruise, and he applied to get married under the Special Marriage Act on February 17.
Kashyap said, "We met on a language learning app. In 2017, she came to India on my birthday. Then this February 11, Dana and her mother came to India for the wedding. On February 17, we applied for marriage under the Special Marriage Act which has a 30-day notice.
“The notice was to end on March 18 but by then the lockdown began so we could not get married. We submitted an application to the district collector after which our wedding was conducted,” he added.
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He said that Dana had booked a flight back to Mexico on March 24 but with the lockdown being extended till May 3, she has now rescheduled her flight to May 5.
Dana said, “I came to meet him in 2017. We later got engaged in December 2018 and I returned to Mexico. I spent two years in Mexico. Due to the lockdown, we couldn’t marry. The deputy commissioner helped us.”
The advocate who helped the couple get married said: “Both of them came to us. Since the girl was from Mexico, they can marry under the Special Marriage Act. Later, we approached the district magistrate and he sent requests to the Mexican embassy and other offices for a no-objection certificate. After the NOC was obtained, the district magistrate opened the court and performed the wedding at 8 pm on April 13.”