CURATED BY – PRADEEP CHOUDHRY | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Indore, Mahendra Pathak of Laado Abhiyan Core Group, the flying squad in-charge of anti-child marriage, was instructed to take action after investigating the matter. After the complaint, the families of both sides were questioned. According to Pathak, the investigation revealed that the girl's age in her class 9th marksheet is 16 years and 2 months.

A 16-year-old girl and an 18-year-old youth got married.

Laado Abhiyan's core group took action in the matter.

The daughter's mother had filed a missing person report

Indore. After falling in love with each other, the minor girl and the youth got married in front of God. The girl also started living in her in-laws' house, but the girl's mother, keeping in mind the daughter's future, told the Laado Abhiyan core group the truth of the whole matter.

 

After this, the group investigated and a case has been registered against seven people from both families in Tejaji Nagar police station.
According to the information, the parents of a minor girl who fell in love with a young man living near their house decided to get her engaged to someone else keeping in mind her future.

The daughter left the house angry with her father's decision. Tejaji Nagar Police traced her daughter after her mother reported her missing and handed her over to her parents.

After this, seeing the daughter's stubbornness, the father, without worrying about her future, sent her with the young man without marrying her.

The young man also married the 16-year-old girl. Ramniwas Budhauliya, District Program Officer of Women and Child Development Department, said that the minor girl's mother complained to the Child Helpline and told the whole truth.

After this, Mahendra Pathak of Lado Abhiyan Core Group, in-charge of flying squad against child marriage, was directed to investigate and take action.

Both the girl and the young man are not marriageable.

Pathak said that after the complaint, the families of both the parties were questioned. Investigation revealed that the girl's age in her class IX mark sheet is 16 years and 2 months.

The family of the girl said that the boy has taken the girl away and is going to marry her. After this, core group member Shailesh Sharma and constable Deepak Parmar of juvenile unit reached the house of the youth in Ralamandal and found the girl there.
When the mark sheet of the youth was checked, it showed his age as 18 years and 10 months. The family of the youth said that they gave in to the insistence of both the children and got them married in front of God at home.
Pathak said that the minor girl also accused her parents of doing transactions with the in-laws. On the basis of the photo and age proof given by the family as proof of marriage, a case was registered in Tejaji Nagar police station as per the Child Marriage Prohibition Act 2006.
In this, an FIR has been lodged under sections 9, 10 and 11 of the Act against seven people including the youth, his and the girl's parents, mother who attended the marriage and the friend of the boy's father.