Minor Girl Married Off

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.

A 16-year-old girl was allegedly beheaded by the man she was set to marry on Thursday, hours after authorities stopped their engagement ceremony in Karnataka's Madikeri.

A seven-year-old girl was allegedly sold for Rs 4.50 lakh to be married off to a middle-aged man in Rajasthan's Dholpur district, police said.

Four persons have been arrested here for marrying off a minor girl forcibly to a man twice her age, police said on Saturday.

A girl who went "missing" from her maternal uncle's Delhi home nearly four years ago has been found by the Delhi Police who said that she had fled to escape being married off as a minor and is now pursuing a nursing course.

Six people who were involved in the "illegal" marriage of a minor girl to a 57-year-old man were on Thursday arrested and the girl rescued, police said.

A man who allegedly impregnated a minor girl, a farm worker, after a false promise of marrying her was let off with a Rs 2.5 lakh 'compensation' and externed by a group of elders in a village in Telangana, police said yesterday.

Lt Governor Kiran Bedi today saved a 17-year-old engineering student from being compulsorily married off by her parents to a 28-year-old man.

Three men have been arrested for their alleged involvement in kidnapping and marrying off a 13 -year-old girl who was later found to be pregnant, police said on Friday.

The girl called Jeevti was just 14 when she taken from her family in the night to be married off to a man who says her family owed him $1,000.

Frustrated with her parents trying to marry her off by force, a minor girl today tried to commit suicide by jumping from the first floor of a police station in Jamshedpur.

Four minor girls - including three sisters and a cousin, the youngest among them two years old - were allegedly married off by their mother and close relatives in a secret ceremony in Ghajuna village of Rajasthan's Bhilwara district, on February 23.

By the tender age of 17 years, this girl from Bengal's Raniganj area has had a lifetime's worth of bad experiences - sold off four times, forced marriage, abuse by husband, and captivity. Three days ago, she finally managed to escape.

An alleged 15-year-old girl was forcibly married off to a 50-year-old man at Ameerpet area in Hyderabad on Sunday, the third such incident being reported from Andhra Pradesh in the last four days, police said.

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.

A 16-year-old girl was allegedly beheaded by the man she was set to marry on Thursday, hours after authorities stopped their engagement ceremony in Karnataka's Madikeri.

A seven-year-old girl was allegedly sold for Rs 4.50 lakh to be married off to a middle-aged man in Rajasthan's Dholpur district, police said.

Four persons have been arrested here for marrying off a minor girl forcibly to a man twice her age, police said on Saturday.

A girl who went "missing" from her maternal uncle's Delhi home nearly four years ago has been found by the Delhi Police who said that she had fled to escape being married off as a minor and is now pursuing a nursing course.

Six people who were involved in the "illegal" marriage of a minor girl to a 57-year-old man were on Thursday arrested and the girl rescued, police said.

A man who allegedly impregnated a minor girl, a farm worker, after a false promise of marrying her was let off with a Rs 2.5 lakh 'compensation' and externed by a group of elders in a village in Telangana, police said yesterday.

Lt Governor Kiran Bedi today saved a 17-year-old engineering student from being compulsorily married off by her parents to a 28-year-old man.

Three men have been arrested for their alleged involvement in kidnapping and marrying off a 13 -year-old girl who was later found to be pregnant, police said on Friday.

The girl called Jeevti was just 14 when she taken from her family in the night to be married off to a man who says her family owed him $1,000.

Frustrated with her parents trying to marry her off by force, a minor girl today tried to commit suicide by jumping from the first floor of a police station in Jamshedpur.

Four minor girls - including three sisters and a cousin, the youngest among them two years old - were allegedly married off by their mother and close relatives in a secret ceremony in Ghajuna village of Rajasthan's Bhilwara district, on February 23.

By the tender age of 17 years, this girl from Bengal's Raniganj area has had a lifetime's worth of bad experiences - sold off four times, forced marriage, abuse by husband, and captivity. Three days ago, she finally managed to escape.

An alleged 15-year-old girl was forcibly married off to a 50-year-old man at Ameerpet area in Hyderabad on Sunday, the third such incident being reported from Andhra Pradesh in the last four days, police said.