India, March 14 -- Guests had arrived, the stage was set, and the marriage ceremony was about to begin when police stormed the venue and arrested the groom from the mandap. It might sound like a scene from a film, but this is how drama unfolded at a wedding venue in Bhopal on Wednesday as the cops arrested the groom, an alleged gangster, right before the wedding rituals.

The situation forced the bride to go to the Koh-e-Fiza police station and plead with the cops to release her fiance at least to complete the wedding rituals, NDTV reported.

"Sahab, my life will be destroyed. What's my fault? I didn't know about the crimes he committed. Guests are waiting at home. Haldi and other rituals have been done," the bride was quoted as saying. ...