Mosques in the Indian technology hub of Hyderabad are joining a growing campaign to stop schoolgirls being sold as brides to elderly Arab men, authorities said on Monday, amid an outcry about a new spate of cases.
India launched an investigation last week into the marriage of a 16-year-old girl with a 65-year-old Oman national in exchange for 500,000 Indian rupees ($7,800) after she contacted her mother from Muscat crying for help.
Hyderabad police said the girl's father had given fake documents regarding her age - as girls in India cannot legally marry until age 18 - and has been taken into custody for questioning. The police are looking for the qazi who performed the wedding in a Hyderabad hotel.
Campaigners said scores of such marriages are performed every year and in most cases the girls are abused physically and sexually, or pushed into domestic servitude. Full story...
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India launched an investigation last week into the marriage of a 16-year-old girl with a 65-year-old Oman national in exchange for 500,000 Indian rupees ($7,800) after she contacted her mother from Muscat crying for help.
Hyderabad police said the girl's father had given fake documents regarding her age - as girls in India cannot legally marry until age 18 - and has been taken into custody for questioning. The police are looking for the qazi who performed the wedding in a Hyderabad hotel.
Campaigners said scores of such marriages are performed every year and in most cases the girls are abused physically and sexually, or pushed into domestic servitude. Full story...
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