Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/ASSAM: Assam police have detained more than 1,800 males for marrying or arranging marriages to underage girls, beginning what the state’s chief minister declared would be a prolonged campaign against the practice on Friday.
Himanta Biswa Sarma told Reuters that the police began the arrests on Thursday night, and more were people helping to register such marriages in temples and mosques.
Chile marriage against law in India
He asserted that “child marriage is the fundamental cause of child pregnancy, which accounts for the high rates of mother and newborn mortality.” It is against the law in India to marry a minor; however, this rule is openly broken.
With an estimated 223 million child brides, the nation is thought to be the world’s largest child bride market. According to a 2020 report from the UN agency for children, Unicef, about 1.5 million minor girls marry there yearly.
According to Sarma, men from various faiths and communities—including Muslims, Hindus, Christians, indigenous people, and members of the tea garden communities—have been detained for this horrible social crime.
He added that the Assam government had registered cases against 4 004 people involved in child marriage.
