Man In India Marries Dog As Atonement: He Tells Paper He Had Been Suffering Since He Stoned Two Canines To Death.

The article reports on the marriage of 33-year-old P. Selvakumar and the sari-draped former stray named Selvi in Tamil Nadu, India. It notes that Selvakumar married the female dog in a traditional Hindu ceremony as an attempt to ward off certain curses for stoning two other dogs to death. It states that the legs and hands of Selvakumar got paralyzed and he lost hearing his one ear since he stoned two dogs to death and hung their bodies from a tree.