Hurley wedding 'made mockery of Hindu customs'

A Hindu religious activist has filed a complaint in a western Indian court saying that Elizabeth Hurley and Arun Nayar’s Hindu wedding made a “mockery of Hindu customs”, it was reported today.

The 41-year-old British model and Nayar, a 42-year-old Indian businessman, were married in a lavish and traditional Hindu ceremony at a palace-turned-hotel in the western Indian city of Jodhpur on March 9.

The couple were first wed in a private civil ceremony in a castle outside London.

“This was a marriage for commercial purposes, but at the cost of religious feelings,” lawyer Hasti Mal Saraswat said in the complaint, The Times of India newspaper said.

Saraswat is acting on behalf of Vishnu Khandelwal, a local businessman and religious activist. The complaint goes on to say that Hurley did not remove her footwear while walking around the sacred fire at the ceremony and wore revealing clothes, the report added.