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Child marriage is illegal in India, but remains widespread throughout the country, especially in rural areas. According to a 2016 report by UNICEF, up to three million girls under the age of 18 ...

A teen in India who learned she had been married as a one-year-old baby gets the illegal marriage annulled.

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 ...

India's Child Marriage Restraint law passed in 1978 tightened earlier legislation aimed at stopping child marriages, but does not empower police to make arrests without warrants or magistrates' ...

Local sources say there's been a spike in child marriage during the pandemic. A key reason: By marrying off girls early, poor families have one less mouth to feed in desperate times.

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.

Her father, 41, off for the day from brickmaking, lounges on a charpoy, an Indian rope bed, under a thatched roof attached to his family’s single-room […] Skip to content All Sections ...

As per statistics, child marriages account for 27 per cent of marriages in India, The... Legal status of child marriages in India Thu, Mar 27, 2025 | UPDATED 01:54 AM IST ...