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NurPhoto via Getty Images. Even though the prevalence of child marriage declined in India from 49.4% in 1993 to 22.3% in 2021, a Lancet Global Health study revealed that one in five underage girls ...

Indian police have arrested more than 2,000 men in a crackdown on illegal child marriages in involving girls under the age of 18 a northeastern state. Begum is seven months pregnant. Anupam Nath / AP ...

GUWAHATI: A crackdown on illegal child marriages in India’s northeast has resulted in nearly 5,000 arrests, after 416 people were detained in the latest police sweep, a minister said today.

Indian police have arrested more than 2,000 men in a crackdown on illegal child marriages involving girls under the age of 18 in a northeastern state, officials said Saturday.

In India, child marriages are still common, with families often seeing them as a way out of poverty — despite being illegal under the age of 18. In Maharashtra state, activists set up a helpline in ...

Hundreds of Indian women protest crackdown on child marriages: ‘I don’t have any other support’ Massive drive criticised for being an ‘emotional response’ and lacking in substance for ...

India Child Marriage 1 of 12 Nureja Khatun, 19, cries as she waits in her shanty home for her husband Akbor Ali to return, in Morigaon district of Indian northeastern state of Assam, Saturday, Feb ...

Indian police have arrested more than 2,000 men in a crackdown on illegal child marriages involving girls under the age of 18 in a northeastern state, officials said Saturday. Skip to content Close ...