The court issued the order while dismissing a petition seeking to quash the criminal case against them under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006.
State Police Chief Darvesh Saheb said that most incidents of child marriage occur in the plantation sector. Police officers are well-trained to deal with such scenarios to end child marriage, he added ...
Five states -- Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh -- account for more than half of the total child marriages in the country, according to UNICEF and government data.
