"We will launch a massive crackdown against child marriage in the state. Those marrying girls below the age of 14 years, will be booked under the POCSO Act," the CM said.
Deceived into marrying a Pakistani man, a Jammu woman fled to Bhopal as was being forced to live in Pakistan or Dubai with her husband, Bhopal Police said.
SC directed that the order of the High Court, which held that a Muslim girl aged 15 years can enter into legal and valid marriage as per personal law, should not be relied on as a precedent in any other case.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who is on a visit to Jharkhand, on Saturday lambasted Hemant Soren-led Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) government and said intruders are forcefully marrying tribal girls in the state and grabbing their land.
A boy in Telangana's Kalwakurthy, who was allegedly taken away for forceful religious conversion at extremist training camp, was later found to have left the house of his own volition to marry a girl from a different community who he loves, the police informed on Monday.
Vanita Sharma accused her daughter's former boyfriend of cheating on Tunisha and said Sheezan broke up with the 21-year-old despite promising to marry her.
The 'kidnapping' case of an 18-year-old woman in Rajanna Sircilla district of Telangana took a dramatic twist when the girl released a video saying that she was not abducted and went on her own to marry her lover.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said that there is a need to change the system of men marrying three-four women to give justice to Muslim women.