Vijai B. Pandey, 60, filed a lawsuit in Hampden Superior Court last month against friends who tried to arrange a marriage between his son Pranjul K. and their niece. The Pandeys, after spending money on long-distance calls and airfare, found her much too homely.Ok, so let me get this straight. The guy arranges a marriage between his son and a girl, then sues the girl's family after he visits them and discovers that she does not scale his bar of comeliness. Yeah, I can see how that could make some sense. However, what I can not make any sense of are the charges he is levelling against the girl's family. Fraud I can see, ok so they lied that they had a pretty daughter but conspiracy? Somehow I don't think they conspired to create an ugly daughter. What'd they do, make funny faces during her conception?
When the Pandeys saw the bride in New Delhi last August, they were "extremely shocked to find ... she was ugly ... with protruded bad teeth, and couldn't speak English to hold a conversation," Vijai Pandey stated in the lawsuit. The woman's complexion was also cited for the broken engagement.
Pandey's civil complaint against Lallan and wife Kanti Giri of Boyds, Md., seeks $200,000 in damages, and charges them with fraud, conspiracy and violation of civil rights, among other claims resulting in emotional distress.
"Violation of civil rights"? This one I don't get at all. Unless of course the protrusion of the girl's teeth was so pronounced that they encroached into someone else's personal space. Kind of far-fetched, but to me, the only possible theory.
And finally, emotional distress. You got some nerve, boy. After calling the girl ugly, bad complexioned and buck toothed, you want to sue them for emotional distress? That's priceless, no, really.
And by the way, what happened to the good old fashioned way of exchanging photographs before arranging a meeting? That way you get to sue the photographer as well for conspiring to manufacture non-existent beauty. Some more money in the bank, some more sanity down the drain.
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I love stories of backward countries and their folksy marriage customs. Not the Americans at all who base it all on hormones, money and false advertising via plastic surgery.
How is plastic surgery 'false' advertising? I'd reserve that label for wigs, makeup and wonder bras :)
Ok, so you marry what appears to be a super-model (this is rhetorical, of course, since only gawker will ever have that chance) then, you blissfully proceed to get a beautiful house, nice car, jet around the world. Low and behold, your supermodel wife tells you she's pregnant. You're overjoyed. The day arrived, the child appears, suddenly, something must be wrong. The child looks like a Picaso on LSD . . . through Dali's worst nightmare.
How can this possibly be? Your wife has perfect cheekbones, jaw, nose, perky breasts, no cellulite or fat above the national average.
Plastic surgery, my friend. Congratulations, that's false advertising
G, the story is mind-boggling, the lawsuite is purile, but your commentary is priceless, as usual.
Now an off-topic comment. We (V and I) cannot watch the HDFC Insurance ad (which is played about 10 times within the duration of a match) without snickering at the memory of your post on that ad. That waws priceless too.
Oh and Mr. Pandey has been a fraud. From that article:
"In 1991, Pandey was sentenced to nine months in jail following a conviction for bank fraud in Springfield's U.S. District Court. "
Maybe they'll send him back.
Someone whos stupid enough to sue a person for not providing an adequately beautiful wife (after talking to her directly and seeing photos) qualifies for, in my opinion, immediate chopping off of certain private parts.
Haha! Very funny comment, robroy! Fake advertising indeed!
Anyway, I agree with the post -- this is absolutely ludicrous. If they get paid, I'm making a business out of it!
robroy : You don't want your children to be better looking than you anyways. Its better to have people pointing to your kid and asking how the hell did that come out of that than pointing to you and saying how the hell did that give birth to that.
supremus : i am sure the family would invite you for the trial provided you were to send them a picture of you first and you were beautiful and didn't have protruding teeth.
sujatha : Goddamn is that ad still playing? If I had stayed in India a bit longer, I would probably have started to throw things at the tv every time the ad appeared.
deepak : yes, it does seem like Pandey is trigger happy. Plus, it seems he already had jealousy issues with the other family cause they owned a BMW and shit. All in all, Pandey was not a good human being.
arnold : In that case you better start proposing via email to ugly women without asking for their pictures first.
gawker, that ad is really playing. can you tell me where your house is so i can join you in throwing things at your tv...i am slightly overawed by my tv and the monthly payments that they make me pay for it. No, not HDFC though.
God...this is what i call sense of humour:)
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