It would be a dream for any girl to have a 'Dream Wedding' where she sits near groom and pundits chanting mantras. But for Netravati the marriage has happened in the unlikeliest of places - An Ambulance. The final year Diploma Nursing Student was forced to marry in an Ambulance. She was lying on a stretcher in night wear.
Netravathi is from an agricultural family in the village of BG Kere, Molakalmuru taluk of Chitradurga district. She had met and fallen in Love with Guruswamy who is also from a farming family in Challakere town. Guruswamy is a technician with a windmill project in Chitradurga.
The couple had decided to be part of the mass wedding on Amavasya. Netravathi injured herself on 23rd and during the same day she slipped and fell, injuring her spinal cord while picnicking with Guruswamy in Chitradurga fort.
After a week of treatment, a brave Netravathi made up her mind to return for the wedding on 5th of June. She was unable to sit or stand, but she reached the mutt in an ambulance. The mangalsutra was tied around her neck. Doctors said that she would recover in a few months with right treatment.
