Pakadwa Vivah' or forced marriage, which involves the practice of abducting eligible bachelors and forcibly marrying them, usually by intimidating them with guns, is not uncommon in Bihar. In another such instance,

A man who had passed the BPSC examinations to become a teacher was forcibly married by villagers of a girl in Bihar's Begusarai.

This incident adds to the growing number of 'Pakadwa Vivah' cases in Bihar, where unmarried men are coerced into marriage at gunpoint. According to police reports, 2024 has seen the highest number of forced marriages in the last three decades.