Love knows no boundaries, and 22-year-old Bangladeshi woman Krishna Mandal’s story is the perfect example — one that has all the ingredients of a Bollywood blockbuster.
Suffused with courage and filled with hope,
Krishna swam across the border to marry her boyfriend in India. However, her quest for love eventually landed her in jail in the eastern Indian state of Bengal.
In fact, the duo recently met on Facebook, fell in love and decided to tie the knot — a tale that will make Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg a happy man.
As Abhik did not have a passport, Krishna reportedly decided to take a strenuous journey to meet him. She swam across the Malta river for over an hour and made her way to the Sunderbans to finally reach India.
Abhik, who was waiting for her in Kaikhali village of West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, whisked her off to the ‘City of Joy’ (Kolkata) in a car, where they got married in a temple.
As the news became viral on WhatsApp, Kolkata Police soon took her into custody for illegally entering India. “She has been remanded in judicial custody by a court and we will soon apprise the Bangladesh High Commission of the arrest,” a police officer told the local media.
