Mitul Savani (C), son of Mahesh Savani, organiser and director of PP Savani Group, weds Janki in the presence of a Hindu Brahmin (L) at a mass wedding of 236 fatherless girls organised by the charitable PP Savani Group in Surat, some 270 km from Ahmedabad, on December 25, 2016. - AFP
AHMEDABAD: An Indian diamond trader has thrown a mass wedding for more than 200 fatherless brides and given each of them gifts worth thousands of dollars, to help poor women start a new life.
Mahesh Savani performed the Hindu wedding ritual of 'Kanyadaan' -- the practice of giving away one's daughter in marriage -- for 236 fatherless brides from poor families at a mega-wedding event in the western state of Gujarat at Christmas.
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