When 25-year-old orphan Madhu Verma from Bhopal died on Wednesday in a hospital and her body was brought to the Subhash Nagar cremation ground, her friends decided to fulfil her last wish - to marry boyfriend Bunty.
They called Bunty, the dead girl's lover to the crematorium and performed a brief marriage ceremony after which they cremated her - a task not traditionally performed by women in the traditional Hindu society.
Madhu, who earned a living by working in a beauty parlour and as a clerk in the hostel where she stayed, died of tuberculosis on Wednesday at the Kasturba Hospital where she had been admitted.
She had come to Bhopal five years ago from Ujjain where she was born and had spent the first 20 years of her life at Nari Niketan, a shelter for destitute women.She was staying at a hostel for working women here for the past five years.
"We rushed to the cremation ground as soon as we got the news of her death," said her friend Meena Singh. She is also the warden of the hostel where Madhu was staying.
There's such lovers too in the land of flirt and oomphs!
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