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Police arrest man who married off daughter to dog

The father of four-year-old Anju, who was married off to a dog to 'ward off the evil eye', was arrested from his village home in Nadia district of West Bengal on Sunday evening, police sources said in Kalyani.

Subal Karmakar was arrested under section 7 of the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisement) Act of 1954 and sections 295A [deliberate and malicious act to hurt someone's religious belief] and 120(b) [criminal conspiracy] of the Indian Penal Code from Khordah Mohanpur village under Haringhata police station.

A weeping Anju, Karmakar's youngest daughter, was married off to a mongrel belonging to one of his relatives with all traditional rituals on July 10.

Karmakar, an employee of the Bidhan Chandra Agricultural University, had said while defending his daughter's marriage to the canine that she "had to be married to a dog to ward off the evil eye".

"After she was born, she cut her first tooth when she was only eight months, she broke her arm when she was two years old, almost drowned six months later and burnt her legs accidentally in the kitchen just five months ago," Karmakar had said after the wedding to which he had invited 80 'guests'.

Five baratis [wedding processionists] had accompanied the dog to the girl's home.

Karmakar is to be produced in court on Monday, the police said.

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