British celebrity Elizabeth Hurley’s estranged in-laws aren’t the only ones unhappy with her big Indian wedding. A resident of the city where she was wed to businessman Arun Nayar last month has filed a court petition charging that the couple’s public displays of affection and drinking before the ceremony were an outrage to Hindu tradition that merit criminal charges.
Vishnu Khandelwal, a resident of Jodhpur in the northern state of Rajasthan, reportedly filed the case after seeing pictures of the lavish nuptials. Hurley sold her wedding pictures to Hello! magazine for $5 million, and the plaintiff’s attorney plans to use some of those photographs to prove his case against the couple.
One of the alleged offenses is that Hurley refused to take off her leather footwear when they approached the sacred fire set up to witness their marriage — an outrage in a country that worships the cow. They also drank alcohol before the wedding, which is barred by Hindu tradition.
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