The duo from Nepalgunj-5 was madly in love and eventually married about three years ago. But once Sangita gave birth to their daughter, Ganesh started to lose interest in her. Eighteen months after exchanging vows to live together for seven lives, their marriage hit a roadblock and the lovebirds who used to dread a day passing by without meeting one another bitterly separated while not on speaking terms.
Ganesh applied for divorce 18 months ago, but Banke district court declined after Sangita refused to oblige. They still live separately with Sangita keeping their daughter at her parents´ house.
The sudden bitterness in their relationship has not affected Ganesh much but Sangita is ruing the mess that her life has become. “He married me threatening to commit suicide if I refused. But once he said that he cannot live with me after the birth of daughter, I don´t know what to do,” Sangita says.
“I couldn´t even continue my education due to marriage on his compelling insistence but my life has been ruined after the betrayal,” she complains.
Married at 17 after obsessive liking for Sangita, Ganesh still can´t explain why the marriage couldn´t work. “Yes I married her because I loved her. But I don´t know why I don´t want to live with her,” he says.
There is an increasing trend of such love marriages going wrong. Many couples are moving court for divorce after marrying in a hurry without properly knowing each other. The marriage of Dhan Bahadur BK from Khalanga-3 and Chandra BK from Belawa-9 after normal acquaintance also could not last beyond two years as Dhan Bahadur concealed the fact that he was a divorcee.
“I found a photo of his former wife in the bed just two weeks after our marriage. After two years of constant bickerings, I decided to file for a divorce,” Chandra reveals. Their case is sub judice at the Banke district court.
The number of couples repenting after whimsically marrying following teenage infatuation is on the rise. “Majority of the divorce applications are resulting from love marriages. Most of them are couples marrying without adequately knowing each other,” says divorce lawyer Bishnu Pokharel adding that getting share of the husband´s property is much harder than a divorce.
Records at the Banke court show that the number of divorce cases in the first 10 months of the current fiscal year has reached 106 already beating the 104 of the last fiscal year. “Most of the cases are related to love marriage while others are related to personal freedom and domestic violence,” says registrar at the court Dilli Ratna Shrestha.
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