- As per section 65 of Indian Contract Act, any person who has received any advantage under such agreement or contract is bound to restore it, or to make compensation for it to the person from whom he received it.
- Further as per section 73, when a contract has been broken, the party who suffers by such breach is entitled to receive, from the party who has broken the contract, compensation for any loss or damage caused to him.
- Further, the party who broke the contract due to mistakes of other party will have also bear the consequences for breaching the contract as well.
- Further, breach of promise to marry also attracts an offence of cheating under S. 415 of the Indian Penal Code, if the intention was not to marry at the time of engagement.
- Since, you wanted to broke the engagement due to the concealment of true facts by the bride family , hence you are not responsible for the same , and the bride family will have to prove the existence of promise of marry.
- Hence, send a notice to her family and return the gift , ring etc. received at the time of engagement , and further you are not responsible to pay the cost of engagement legally.
- You can lodge a complaint as information to the police for the threatening of committing suicide