BAHAWALPUR – Police have foiled a bid for the marriage of an underage girl in Lodhran, a district in Punjab province of Pakistan.
A man named Mushtaq married off his 13-year-old daughter to a 38-year-old man named Azhar ten days ago in the Haveli Naseer Khan area of the district.
A day earlier, rukhsati of the child was held when police reached the spot and stopped the illegal marriage.
Police have registered a case against 13 people, include the groom and girl’s father.
The underage girl’s mother, aunt, and two cousins have been arrested while the groom and the girl’s father and others managed to escape from the scene.
The Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Act, 2015, which was enforced in Punjab in March 2015, prohibits the marriages of females below the age of 16 years.
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