An Israeli couple were fined 500 Indian rupees ($11) each for
embracing and kissing after getting married in a traditional
Hindu ceremony in the northwestern Indian town Pushkar.

The Israeli Embassy in New Delhi confirmed the incident and
identified the couple as Alon Orpaz and Tehila Salev, who decided
to get married while visiting India.

A local newspaper said that priests at Pushkar's Brahma
temple were so cross when the couple smooched as hymns were still
being chanted that they filed a police complaint. A court in
Pushkar then charged them with indecency and ordered them to pay
the fine or face 10 days in prison, the newspaper reported.

The couple decided to pay, it said. “We will not tolerate
any cultural pollution of this sort,” the newspaper quoted a
priest, Ladoo Ram Sharma, as saying.