Child marriage stopped in UP's Shamli
India | July 04, 2021 14:56 ISTThe team reached Balhedi village on Saturday after receiving information about the function, the helpline's in-charge Punam Sharma said.
The team reached Balhedi village on Saturday after receiving information about the function, the helpline's in-charge Punam Sharma said.
A shocking incident has come to light from Haryana's Panipat, where a woman was kept locked in bathroom for a year by husband.
In February, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had, during the Budget Speech 2020-2021 had announced that this decision is important and will be looked into again in the span of the next six months.
A 13-year-old girl will be felicitated by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for stopping a child marriage in her own family. The girl is Vanshika Gautam, a Class 8 student of Kasturba Gandhi Avasiya Vidyalaya in Kharkhauda area.
According to District Collector Vijay Amruta Kulange, the Ganjam administration, along with NGOs and self-help groups, has foiled as many as 38 child marriages this year. "Though people get to know about the preparations for a child marriage, they do not inform the administration fearing backlash by village leaders. The cash award will motivate people to come forward and flag such cases," he said. If the administration received information on time, a girl's life could be saved, he stressed.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of state government officials and police reached Kelod Kankar village and stopped a pre-wedding ceremony underway, said an MP Women and Child Development Department official
The girl's marriage with a 24-year-old man, hailing from the state's Buldhana district, was to be held at 6 pm last Friday in Kalwar locality of Bhiwandi town here, Narpoli police station's inspector Maloji Shinde said.
The child bride's in-laws were allegedly involved in criminal activities. When Pintudevi demanded a divorce, they threatened her family with dire consequences and social boycott.
After filing an appeal to annul the child marriage in the family court here on Wednesday, Pintudevi, now 18, told IANS: "I was married off when I was just 6. Since my in-laws were involved in criminal activities, I was scared. There are other reasons also why I do not want to go to my in-law’s place."
In an embarrassment to the BJP, its MLA from Agar Malwa, Gopal Parmar, said on Saturday that the issue of ‘love jihad’ is a result of the “disease” of 18 years being the minimum legal age for marriage of women.
The Nitish Kumar government has announced forming a state-wide human chain on coming Sunday to express people resolve against social evils like child marriage and dowry.
Villagers said they ordered the minors to marry after they were caught together in the night.
Rishta Likhenge Hum Naya will be entirely different from Pehredaar Piya Ki.
According to a senior government functionary, the top court order will help curb child marriages as it has created the needed "legal deterrent".
The judgment brings the focus on this crucial shortcoming in our society that has been accentuated both by societal mindsets as well as State apathy.
The report said the lowest percentage of child marriages was recorded in Punjab and Kerala at 7.6 per cent.
The international child bride racket was busted in the old city with the arrest of 20 people, including five Omani sheikhs, three Qataris and three qazis
The petitioner NGO Independent Thought has described the exception under Section 375 of the IPC as being discriminatory and violative of Article 14 of the Constitution that guarantees equality before law.
Pahredaar Piya Ki has been under scrutiny for a while for portaying a romantic relationship between an adult woman and a 9-year-old boy
Kumar said like taking a call against total prohibition on demand of a few women, he was inspired to run a campaign against child marriage by a woman at "Lok Samvad" (public interaction) programme.
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