In a bizarre and funny incident, a man in Chhattisgarh married two women simultaneously in the same 'mandap' in presence of family members and villagers with all the rituals and formalities. Chandu Maurya, 24, solemnized his marriage with the two women, both his lovers, at a ceremony attended by 500 people on January 5,

Reportedly, Maurya, 24, had gone to Tokapal for some work where he Sundari Kashyap, a 21-year-old girl, and fell in love with him. Exchanging numbers, the two planned to marry each other soon. A year, Maurya met 20-year-old Haseena Baghel in a relative's wedding ceremony and fell in love again. Though Maurya accepted that he is in a relationship, Baghel insisted that they keep in touch over the phone.

Maurya said that Baghel and Kashyap came to know about each other a little later and agreed to have a relationship with him. They are now married and started living with each other in the same house as a family, he said. However, Maurya decided to marry the two girls after the villagers started questioning him over the "live-in relationship". "Fed-up with the questions, I decided to marry both of them because they both loved me. I can’t betray them. They agreed they both will live with me forever,". A video from the wedding ceremony and the invitation card of the function have gone viral on social media.

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