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Bride legs it from wedding after groom proves unable to add up

I'm not multiplying with this dunderhead

An Indian bride left her wedding ceremony after her gormless fiance failed to answer a simple maths question, it's being reported.

Local police were called in to mediate the returning of gifts, including jewellery, which had been exchanged dowry-fashion between the families before the wedding.

During the ceremony in Rasulabad, the bride asked her groom to state the sum of six and 15.

He answered 17.

She, of course, left the ceremony. Her father Mohar Singh complained that the groom's family had kept them in the dark about his poor education, the AP reports.

Marriages in India are very commonly arranged by the families rather than the spouses-to-be. It is common for the bride and groom to have very limited contact before the nuptials, though this is more usually a matter of tradition rather than a means of obscuring one party's intellectual destitution. ®

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