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Police said that Markham was in a relationship with the 29-year-old bride and insisted on her becoming his second wife.

mohammedan.

They are the only ones allowed to have more then one wife in India.

Which would explain why the family said "Dear Krishna no" to him marrying their daughter.

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mohammedan.
They are the only ones allowed to have more then one wife in India.

True, but he could have been a widower or divorced, or, as may be the case here, planning to divorce his current wife. Sarju is usually a Hindu name.