Two young Kashmiri Muslims recently eloped against their families’ wishes and are in hiding. The village elders have ordered the man’s family to offer a bride and cash to the woman’s family and are allegedly holding the man’s family hostage to ensure compliance.
This takes the theory of vicarious liability to a whole new level. But merely taking them hostage stinks of rank amateurism. Why not follow the lead of Russian counterterrorism and send the couple a severed hand? That would really get the point across: love hurts, babe.
Nah Manish, here’s the lesson to learn — And you thought breaking up was hard! At least your family didn’t have to pay a penalty to your exes family, and marry off one of your siblings to make things “right”. Man, and I thought getting my stuff back was difficult …