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Indian police arrest over 2,000 men for illegal child marriages


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Indian police have arrested more than 2,000 men in a crackdown on illegal child marriages involving girls under the age of 18 in a northeastern state, officials said Saturday.

Those arrested this week included more than 50 Hindu priests and Muslim clerics for allegedly performing marriages for underage girls in Assam, state police chief Gyanendra Pratap Singh said.

"We have so far arrested 2,169 men based on 4,074 registered police cases involving a total of about 8,000 men," said Singh.

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What is to become of the child brides? And if they have had children? Just going to live on the street?

And yes, it was Hindu AND Muslim clerics that enabled this...

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