Last month, after leaving for Delhi on work-related business, the 55-year-old called his family to let them know that he had married Ayesha, his son’s fiancée. What he didn’t tell them was that he had taken the family savings (more than 200,000 rupees ($2,400) and jewelry as well. Theft carries a potential sentence of up to three years behind bars, but local police told the Times of India newspaper that no formal complaint has been filed, so they couldn’t take any action against Shakeel.

Interestingly, just a couple of months ago, we featured a similar story of an Indian man who eloped with his soon-to-be mother-in-law just 9 days before he was supposed to marry her daughter. You know what they say, all is fair in love and war…