US woman, Indian man's marriage registration delayed: NFIW

Jaipur: National Federation of Indian Women's Rajasthan Unit on Tuesday alleged that the marriage of an American woman with an Indian man has not been registered since March as the clerks in ADM's office in Alwar were demanding a bribe to do the same.

"One Brenda Kuchcinski of USA and Hitesh Sharma of Alwar in Rajasthan got married on January 19, 2015 according to Hindu rituals at Khujrao and they applied for marriage registration with ADM office in Alwar in March," NFIW's state general secretary Nisha Siddhu told a press conference.

Quoting Brenda's letter of complaint, Siddhu said the clerks in the ADM office had demanded bribe to execute the work.

"Over the past six months, the clerks and staff at the Alwar ADM office repeatedly created issues with our application in order to ask for bribe which we denied to pay.

All documents were filed and accepted in March according to the clerks at this office. They (clerks) had sent the marriage notice to a vague, incomplete address in order to stop our process," accompanied by her husband, Brenda showed her letter to media.

"My mother is having a surgery soon in USA and we need to return to her home to care for her, but we are still waiting for the marriage certificate so that we can apply for my husband's immigration and he can go with me," she said.

Siddhu said she had sent the complaint to Chief Secretary of the state government and Alwar Collector to expedite the work at the earliest.

The American woman is paramedical staff and her husband is a motivational trainer and has a computer hardware business.