Child Marriage
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Rajasthan govt's U-turn on child marriage registration bill after uproar over controversial clause
India | Oct 12, 2021, 04:07 PM ISTRajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday said that the government would request the Governor to return the bill on child marriage.
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Child marriage legalized? Bill passed in Rajasthan assembly amid uproar from opposition MLAs
India | Sep 18, 2021, 10:55 AM ISTOpposition MLAs strongly claimed that the bill permits child marriages.
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Child marriage stopped in UP's Shamli
India | Jul 04, 2021, 02:56 PM ISTThe team reached Balhedi village on Saturday after receiving information about the function, the helpline's in-charge Punam Sharma said.
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Husband kept wife locked in bathroom for a year in Panipat, rescued
News | Oct 15, 2020, 11:41 AM ISTA shocking incident has come to light from Haryana's Panipat, where a woman was kept locked in bathroom for a year by husband.
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Government mulls to revise women’s legal age for marriage from 18 to 21
India | Jun 14, 2020, 01:59 PM ISTIn 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.
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UP teen stops child marriage in family, to be awarded
India | Mar 04, 2020, 10:07 AM ISTA 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.
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Odisha district to give cash reward for info on child marriage
India | Dec 09, 2019, 11:39 AM ISTAccording 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.
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Madhya Pradesh officials foil child marriage, let off parents with warning
Crime | Nov 17, 2019, 05:24 PM ISTActing 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
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Marriage of 13-yr-old girl foiled in Maharashtra
India | May 19, 2019, 12:39 PM ISTThe 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.
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Rajasthan: Child bride's marriage annulled after 12 years
India | Nov 28, 2018, 03:45 PM ISTThe 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.
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Married off at 6, teen moves court to annul marriage
India | Jun 07, 2018, 06:40 PM ISTAfter 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."
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Love jihad a result of 'disease' of 18-year legal age bar for marriage of girls, says BJP MLA
India | May 06, 2018, 08:46 AM ISTIn 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.
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Union minister Upendra Kushwaha urges all political parties to join hands to support human chain against child marriage, dowry
India | Jan 18, 2018, 01:56 PM ISTThe 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.
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Villagers in UP make minor couple tie nuptial knot, video goes viral
India | Jan 16, 2018, 09:29 PM ISTVillagers said they ordered the minors to marry after they were caught together in the night.
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Pehredaar Piya Ki Sequel: 5 things to know about Rishta Likhenge Hum Naya
TV | Oct 14, 2017, 01:13 PM ISTRishta Likhenge Hum Naya will be entirely different from Pehredaar Piya Ki.
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Govt unlikely to contest SC order criminalising sex with minor wife; feels judgement will curb child marriages
India | Oct 13, 2017, 08:40 PM ISTAccording to a senior government functionary, the top court order will help curb child marriages as it has created the needed "legal deterrent".
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SC order criminalising sex with minor wife a game-changer, key lies in implementation of laws
India | Oct 13, 2017, 01:50 PM ISTThe judgment brings the focus on this crucial shortcoming in our society that has been accentuated both by societal mindsets as well as State apathy.
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West Bengal has 40 per cent child brides: Survey in SC
India | Oct 12, 2017, 08:17 PM ISTThe report said the lowest percentage of child marriages was recorded in Punjab and Kerala at 7.6 per cent.
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Eight ‘Sheikhs’ among 20 arrested in international ‘child bride’ racket in Hyderabad
India | Sep 21, 2017, 10:57 AM ISTThe 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
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SC reserves verdict on plea to criminalise sex in child marriage
India | Sep 06, 2017, 10:00 PM ISTThe 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.