Child Marriage News

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  A Hundred Days of Hope: India's New Push to End Child Marriage by 2030

  Ministry Of Women & Child Development Launches 100-Day Campaign To End Child Marriage By 2030

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  UP Woman Rejected His Marriage Proposal. So He Kidnapped His 4-Year-Old Son

  A man was apprehended from Lucknow hours after he allegedly kidnapped a four-year-old boy from outside his home here after the child's mother refused to marry him, the police said on Wednesday.

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  Stepmother Pushes 6-Year-Old Girl To Death In Karnataka's Bidar: Cops

  A woman in Karnataka's Bidar was arrested for pushing her husband's six-year-old daughter from his first marriage to death.

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  Married Telangana Man, 40, Marries Class 8 Student

  A real-life 'Balika Vadhu' has been reported from Telangana where a 13-year-old girl in Ranga Reddy district has been rescued from child marriage after her teacher alerted the district child protection services and the police.

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  He Killed Nephew, Tried To Extract Liver For "Ritual" To Win Back Wife

  A man and a self-styled 'tantrik' have been arrested in Rajasthan for the murder of a six-year-old boy, who was allegedly killed for use in an occult ritual aimed at reconciling the accused's estranged marriage.

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  Man Accuses Wife Of Attempt To Murder, Gets Booked Under Child Marriage Act

  According to police sources, the Raichur Women's Police have registered a case against the husband, Tataiah, after confirming that he had married a minor girl aged 15.8 years.

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  Bihar Teen Forcefully Married To 33-Year-Old Man. Supreme Court Steps In

  The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Bihar government on a petition filed by a 16-year-old girl, who is "facing threat" for refusing to continue her "coerced" marriage with a 33-year-old man.

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  Sobhita Dhulipala And Naga Chaitanya Expecting First Child After Five Months Of Marriage? Here's What We Know

  Sobhita and Naga Chaitanya married on December 4

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  Desperate For Child After 7 Years Of Marriage, Delhi Woman Steals Newborn

  Unable to conceive despite being married for seven years, a woman from south Delhi lied to her husband that she was pregnant, went to the Safdarjung Hospital, kidnapped a one-day-old girl and took her home.

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  Dipika Kakar Slams Trolls Who Claimed She Abandoned Her Daughter From First Marriage

  Earlier, Shoaib Ibrahim cleared the air about his wife, Dipika Kakar, abandoning her daughter

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  Opinion: Women Warriors Fighting For Every Girl's Future

  On the eve of International Women's Day, the world woke up to the disturbing news of a 14-year-old forcibly married and physically carried off by her 29-year-old husband.

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  14-Year-Old Girl Married Off In Maharashtra; Family, Husband Charged: Police

  The kin of a 14-year-old girl have been booked after she was married off to a 25-year-old man in Maharashtra's Ahilyanagar district in January this year, a police official said on Thursday.

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  "Child Marriage Deprives Children Of Agency, Autonomy": Supreme Court

  Issuing a slew of directions for the effective implementation of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, the Supreme Court said that child marriage deprives children of their agency, autonomy, and right to fully develop and enjoy their childhood

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  Pay Legal Expenses, Husband Told As Court Annuls Child Marriage Of Woman

  Married off at the age of just four months, a woman came out of a 20-year unwanted situation on Monday when a family court annulled her child marriage.

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  Pakistani Man Forces Minor Daughter To Marry 72-Year-Old, Cops Rescue Bride

  Police foiled an attempt to marry off a 12-year-old girl to a 72-year-old man in Charsadda town and arrested the groom, ARY News reported.