KALABURAGI: In an unusual Pocso Act case where a minor married girl was raped, Additional District and Sessions Court in ...
With the help of a local charity and child marriage activist, 18-year old child bride who was married off at just 11 months finally wins her freedom. After 18 years of persecution, Santadevi Meghwal ...
Thousands of women are killed in dowry disputes each year, despite the practice being banned in 1961 ...
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Sold as a child bride, escaped at 15: How Payal Jangid became the voice against child marriage
In a village in Rajasthan where child marriage was once seen as tradition rather than unlawful, resistance was almost unthinkable. Yet one teenager chose to say no. Payal Jangid, who was once expected ...
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Curbing child marriage: Maharashtra contemplating rule mandating birth dates on wedding cards
Mumbai: Maharashtra is considering a rule to print the birth dates of the bride and groom on wedding invitation cards to help curb child marriages, Women and Child Development Minister Aditi Tatkare ...
Aditi Tatkare informed that as per the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2019-21 the child marriage percentage average was 23.3% nationally while it was 21.9% in Maharashtra.
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