Three married men, husbands of three minor girls, have been booked under the rape and POCSO Act after all of them have become pregnant by the Budbud police station, under Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate.
A 15-year-old girl, who was allegedly being forced into marriage with a 21-year-old man in Rohini, Delhi, was rescued by the police.
The grim reality of gender-based atrocities pervades every corner of our world, evincing in abhorrent forms such as sexual violence, dowry deaths, domestic violence, female foeticide and infanticide, female genital mutilation, child marriage and the suppression of women’s autonomy in education, speech and attire.
Despite legal embargo, the abhorrent practice of child marriage goes unabated in Odisha with solemnization of over 8,000 such wedding in the State in the last eight years.
The Odisha Government has conferred the status of Child Marriage Prohibition Officers (CMPOs) on the gram panchayat functionaries besides matrons and warden of Scheduled Tribes & Scheduled Caste Development Department’s residential school hostels
From Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, Bucha Ramanamma escaped from being forcefully married off at the age of 14 years. Sharing her story during the launch of ‘Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat’ campaign here today, she said that her parents worked as daily wagers and they led a hand to mouth life.
Speaking at the launch of Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat (Child Marriage-Free India), a new campaign by her ministry, she called child marriage a grave violation of human rights and a criminal offense.
The Supreme Court on Friday suggested the parliament to consider outlawing child betrothals which may be used to evade penalty under the PCMA.
According to police, an underage girl was married in the Patharkandi subdivision of the Karimganj district.
Phulowar Hussain of Jordanga village allegedly married a 13-year-old girl from Chirakhowa village in South Salmara-Mankachar three years ago.
