This has happened many times before, and also to a very famous couple that were engaged... but married couple not kissing each other in public? This became extremely absurd!!!

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Graphic was done by my friend Daridan


In India, you may NOT kiss the bride

Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:23 AM BST

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Israeli couple was fined 1,000 rupees (12.60 pounds) after an Indian court found them guilty of obscenity for kissing during their marriage ceremony in a Hindu pilgrim town, newspapers reported on Wednesday.

The couple had decided to have a traditional Hindu marriage while visiting Pushkar town earlier this month in the temple-studded desert state of Rajasthan, The Times of India reported.

But they infuriated the priest as they started to kiss and embrace while he was chanting vedic hymns.

The priest, along with other Hindu holy men, complained to police, who filed charges against the couple. The court in Pushkar gave its verdict on Tuesday.

The Asian Age newspaper said Hindu priests were outraged.

"We will not tolerate any cultural pollution of this sort," Ladoo Ram Sharma, president of an organisation of Hindu priests in Pushkar, was quoted as saying.

Pushkar has a famous temple dedicated to Brahma -- the Hindu god of creation -- and is popular with foreign tourists who come for its desert ambience, camel safaris and annual camel fair.

India has tough obscenity laws and kissing in public is frowned upon in the largely conservative country. Last October, local residents in the western state complained to authorities that a group of Israeli women had danced naked near Pushkar.

Reuters 2005