Guwahati/Silchar: More than 100 weddings had been both cancelled or postponed within the Barak Valley districts of southern Assam, whereas 2,278 individuals have been arrested and 4,074 instances registered until Sunday in a large police crackdown on youngster marriage throughout the state.
The sweeping motion adopted an Assam cupboard determination on January 23 that directed police to arrest and punish males who’ve married ladies beneath 18, the authorized minimal age at which girls can marry in India. Police had been advised to spherical up males who’ve married ladies beneath 14 beneath the Pocso Act, and arrest those that wedded ladies within the 14 to 18 age group beneath the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006.
CM Himanta Biswa Sarma had stated multiple lakh underage ladies had been married off and plenty of grew to become youngster moms in recent times, together with a lady who was simply 9 when she gave delivery. “Action will also be taken against parents as well as priests and kazis who performed these illegal marriages,” the CM had warned. DGP GP Singh stated Sunday at the very least 60 clergymen or kazis had been amongst these arrested, which is out of 8,000 individuals named in additional than 4,000 FIRs drawn on males charged with marrying underage ladies. The majority of kid brides had been reported from the decrease and central Assam districts which have a big inhabitants of Bangladeshi immigrants from the non secular minority group.
The sweeping motion adopted an Assam cupboard determination on January 23 that directed police to arrest and punish males who’ve married ladies beneath 18, the authorized minimal age at which girls can marry in India. Police had been advised to spherical up males who’ve married ladies beneath 14 beneath the Pocso Act, and arrest those that wedded ladies within the 14 to 18 age group beneath the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006.
CM Himanta Biswa Sarma had stated multiple lakh underage ladies had been married off and plenty of grew to become youngster moms in recent times, together with a lady who was simply 9 when she gave delivery. “Action will also be taken against parents as well as priests and kazis who performed these illegal marriages,” the CM had warned. DGP GP Singh stated Sunday at the very least 60 clergymen or kazis had been amongst these arrested, which is out of 8,000 individuals named in additional than 4,000 FIRs drawn on males charged with marrying underage ladies. The majority of kid brides had been reported from the decrease and central Assam districts which have a big inhabitants of Bangladeshi immigrants from the non secular minority group.
