By Tim Binnall
A lovesick electrician in India became something of a pariah in his village after it was discovered that he had been cutting the power to his community in order to meet his girlfriend under the cloak of darkness. According to a local media report, the romantic misadventure unfolded earlier this month in the town of Ganeshpur following a series of inexplicable blackouts that occurred like clockwork over the course of several evenings and lasted around three hours at a time. With only their village falling victim to the outages, residents grew suspicious that something sinister was afoot and rumors soon swirled around a local electrician said to be madly in love.
Believing that the unnamed man was behind the power outages, a posse of villagers set out to see if the stories were true and, during the next outage, they managed to locate the electrician on a secret rendezvous with his girlfriend. Pressed for answers, he admitted to being behind the incidents that had plagued the town for the past several days. In response, irate residents not only beat the man, they also shaved his head and forced him to walk through the streets of the village in shame. However, like the plot of a romantic comedy, the tale actually wound up having a happy ending as, seeing the lengths the electrician went for his paramour, the community insisted that the pair get married and the two were quickly wed in a ceremony presided over by local officials.