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Honeymoon murder: Indian-origin couple not officially married

Irish Sun (IANS) Saturday 4th December, 2010

In a new twist in the killing of an Indian-origin woman in South Africa during her honeymoon tour, the victim's father has revealed that the couple's wedding was yet to be registered.

Anni, 28, was found dead after she was abducted by two gunmen while travelling in a taxi along with her partner Shrien Dewani in Western Cape. The British couple flew into South Africa for their honeymoon.

But the lavish 200,000-pound 'marriage' they went through in Mumbai in November in the presence of 300 guests was never officially registered there or anywhere else, the Daily Mail reported Saturday.

The newspaper said it has confirmed with the British high commission in India that the union was never registered, and therefore would not have been recognised in either Britain or Sweden.

From his home in Sweden, Anni's father said: 'My wife and I are Anni's closest relatives - not Shrien. She was not formally married to Shrien.'

'According to the authorities (in Britain and Sweden), Anni was still Miss Hindocha when she died. The marriage registration was not going to happen until March next year, when Anni had her birthday in Britain and they switched rings, which is our custom.'

A letter, sent this week to the Mail from people claiming to be Anni's friends, asked troubling questions about Anni's late-night abduction in a dangerous black township of Gugulethu, several miles from their Cape Town hotel.

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