In a bizarre wedding ritual nearly 700 brides were given wooden planks to help them ward off drunk and abusive husbands
Gopal Bhargava, an Indian Rural Development Minister gave the brides the bats during a mass marriage ceremony solemnised on Monday in his home town Garhakota in Sagar district.
He said the gift was to help the women ward off drunk and abusive husbands.
The wooden bat or
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