Forced Marriage
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Bihar 'pakaduah vivah': School teacher kidnapped, forced to marry girl in Begusarai | VIDEO
Bihar | Dec 14, 2024, 04:41 PM ISTBihar: The boy claimed that on the morning of the incident when he was on his way to school at least two vehicles stopped him. He was forcibly taken in an e-rickshaw to a temple, where an attempt was made to marry him off. He opposed the marriage, and as a result, he was physically assaulted.
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Bihar: Angry with 'Pakadua shaadi', man kills daughter-in-law, her father and brother
Bihar | Feb 18, 2024, 07:39 AM ISTSubodh Kumar Yadav, mukhiya of the village, said it was a case of 'Pakadua shaadi' (forced marriage), in which men are abducted and married off to women against their will, and that was the reason Neelu Kumari's in-laws were not taking her to their home even after two years of marriage.
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Bhopal: Google senior manager given intoxicants, married forcibly, threatened for Rs 40 lakh
Crime | Oct 16, 2022, 07:19 AM ISTBhopal: The victim Ganesh Shankar said the girl and her family members clicked some photographs, on the basis of which they were demanding Rs 40 lakh from him. They also threatened to implicate him in a false case if he failed to give money.
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Here's what Sidharth Malhotra, Parineeti Chopra's Jabariya Jodi is all about
Bollywood | Apr 17, 2019, 12:21 PM ISTSidharth Malhotra and Parineeti Chopra's Jabariya Jodi is based on Pakadwa Vivah that is rampant in Bihar.
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Pak man claims Hindu woman embraces Islam, marries him; FIR says she is minor, abducted
World | Mar 27, 2019, 02:16 PM ISTHis claim came a day after the provincial Minorities Affairs Minister Hari Ram Kishori Lal directed authorities to register an FIR of the abduction and provide protection to the girl's family.
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UK govt under fire for charging forced marriage victims
World | Jan 02, 2019, 09:03 PM ISTAccording to the latest statistics from the UK's Forced Marriage Unit (FMU), India ranks fourth among countries where victims are taken to be forced into marriage after Pakistan, Bangladesh and Somalia. In 2017, 82 male and female victims of forced marriage supported by the FMU were from India.
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Forced marriage: SC orders Karnataka police to grant protection to woman married off without consent
India | May 08, 2018, 10:57 AM ISTThe woman, an engineer by profession, alleged that she was forced to discontinue her studies in January this year as her parents forced her to marry against her wishes.
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Over 3,400 grooms abducted in 2017 for 'Pakadua Vivah' in Bihar
India | Feb 04, 2018, 03:25 PM IST"Pakadua Vivah is rampant in Bihar. About 3,405 youths have been kidnapped for forced marriage in the state. In most of the cases, Pakadua Vivah was solemnised at gun point or threats to their life and their families," a police official said.
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India TV Exclusive: Engineer abducted, forced to marry in Bihar-style ‘arranged’ wedding
India | Jan 02, 2018, 11:14 AM ISTIncidents of abducting girls for forced marriage are not very rare, but what came into light in Bihar’s Patna is exactly opposite.
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Indian woman who was forced to marry a Pakistani man, returned home
India | May 25, 2017, 11:47 AM ISTUzma, who belongs to New Delhi, and Ali "fell in love" in Malaysia, after which she travelled to Pakistan on May 1, via the Wagah border.
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UP: Bulandshahr girl abducted, forcefully converted, married
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Six-year-old girl forced to marry a 55-year-old man in exchange of food and goat
World | Aug 09, 2016, 04:48 PM ISTIn a shameful incident that sheds light on the scourge of child marriages in the war-battered Afghanistan, a six-year-old girl was forced to marry a 55-year-old man after her father allegedly sold her in exchange for a goat.
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Raped, forcefully married, sold multiple times: Woman returns home after 10-year ordeal
India | Aug 03, 2016, 05:11 PM ISTshe was sold twice, raped multiple times, forcefully married, dispossessed of her two children and sold to a dance bar
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Bride sits on Dharna as husband, in-laws deny entry into the house
India | Feb 17, 2015, 10:37 PM ISTBegusarai: You must have come across many tales of knights abducting beautiful princesses and living happily ever after but here we are recounting an altogether different but real story.Priti Kumari, a resident of Bharoul village