Recently police intervened to stop similar incidents in Rajanpur and Thatta, rescuing young girls from being forced to...
Child marriage is a human rights violation and a recognised form of gender and sexual-based violence.
This is the second such crackdown, which was mostly conducted in various areas of lower Assam and the Barak Valley in...
Thirteen people have been booked in UP for allegedly getting a 15-year-old girl married to a 35-year-old, in a secret...
The governor's claims that many minor girls were subjected to the test in Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore were denied by local...
Biswa Sarma said that he had ‘some of our people’ picked up otherwise the Opposition lawmakers ‘will feel bad’,...
It is clear that the abrupt police crackdown against child marriage had a strong socio-political bias with the support...
The High Court said these instances do not need custodial interrogation.
Child marriage prohibition laws enforced in India prove that the practice cannot be routed out overnight. The last...
Police have registered a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act in connection with the...
"The war against child marriage will be secular and no single community will be targeted."
Rekha received the annulment on her 21st birthday, after 20 years of marriage and struggle
Police filed FIR against the parents, the groom; his paternal uncle and aunt; the priest who conducted the marriage; a...
A new project by the Kerala government 'Ponvakk' will provide incentives to people who help the authorities to prevent...
