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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian college girl has
temporarily married her teenaged boyfriend's elder
brother so she can live in the same house as her lover
until he is old enough to marry her, the Indian
Express reported Tuesday.

Sneha Patel, 19, a resident of the western Indian
state of Gujarat, was in love with Yash Kishan Parmar,
also 19, and wanted to marry him despite her parents'
opposition to the match, the newspaper said.

But the legal age for marriage in India -- 18 for
girls and 21 for boys -- put a spoke in their plans.
Live-in relationships are not very popular in the
tradition-bound country.

Patel and Parmar eloped briefly but, not wanting to be
on the run until Parmar was 21, Patel proposed that
she would marry his elder brother and divorce him two
years later.

The elder brother even agreed to sign a contract
saying he would divorce Patel after two years and
treat her as his younger brother's wife until then,
the newspaper said.

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