People from all walks of life have come together to participate in the biggest festival of democracy as the Lok Sabha elections for the first phase have begun. Voters of all ages, including first-time voters, exercised their right to vote during the first phase of the election. A bride and groom appeared at the booth to cast their votes in an unusual incident that took place in Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir.

The video of the couple is now going viral on the internet. Netizens are praising them for exercising their right. A user said these couples are inspiration to many. Another congratulated them and said they had set an example in the society.

Meanwhile, the Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency, which is comprised of the five districts of Udhampur, Kathua, Ramban, Doda, and Kishtwar, began polling at 7 a.m. despite bad weather.

In a simillar incident, Kapil Gupta married on Thursday and shortly after returned home on Friday morning, he cast his vote at a polling booth that was put up on the premises of the Jammu and Kashmir Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes & Backward Classes Development Corporation Limited in Udhampur town.

He urged people to cast their ballots in big numbers, saying, voting is our right and must be done on priority.

Sahil and Radhika, another recently-wed couple, showed up at an election booth set up at an Udhampur school dressed as bride and groom.

The bride said, on Thursday, the day when they got married, she suggested to to her husband that they will go for voting. Although her vote was not there but she accompanied her husband to the polling booth.

She continued saying that she will be visiting her parents later in the day, which is in a nearby village to fulfil her democratic right as well.

In Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur-Kathua, voting is presently underway. However, despite of bad weather, people are going to polling boot to cast their vote. Voting is scheduled to end at 6 pm.

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A hair-raising story has come to light from Chhattisgarh where a newly married couple was found dead inside a room right before their wedding reception. The incident reportedly ensued in Chhatigarh’s Raipur on Wednesday.

The incident took place under the jurisdiction of Tikrapara police station in which a 24-year-old man identified as Aslam and a 22-year-old woman identified as Kahkasha Bano were found dead in a room with stab wounds on the victim’s bodies.

As per the reports, the couple got married on Sunday, following the marriage ceremony, the reception was scheduled to be held on Tuesday night, however, things took an awry turn as screams and shrieking voices were heard coming from the room of the couple.

According to reports, the mother of the groom heard the screams and wailing noise coming out of the room after which she reached to check up on the couple. Upon arrival at the room, the mother learned that the room was locked and despite incessant knocking on the door, she received no answer.

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After the mother of the groom, more relatives rushed and some of them tried to check up on the couple by peeping through the window of the room. To the relatives’ surprise, the couple was seen lying in their pool of blood after which the relatives alarmed the police.

Police actions

After learning about the incident, the police rushed to the spot and knocked down the door of the locked room. The police saw the couple lying in their pool of blood as both bodies had stab wounds on their body. It was reported that the police have sent the body for a post-mortem and the initial probe suggested that the case is a murder-suicide.

The police also recovered the weapon that was used in the stabbing and are probing the case further.

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