Summary:
Kamrup district, not very far from the city, has emerged as one of the areas with the most child marriages.Since the beginning of this year, the district has recorded 208 cases of children in distress, of which 160 were cases of child marriages. In the majority of such cases, the victims were lured into marriage.Mukleshwar Rahman, a Childline official working against child marriage, said, “We are attending to cases of child marriages in the district on a daily basis. Guwahati: Despite constant awareness programs, minor girls, mostly from rural and char areas of the state, continue to remain vulnerable to child marriage. They were rescued from forced marriages in Rajasthan and Gujarat too,” said Kamrup Police.The state’s social welfare department records show that the number of child marriage cases in the state have been escalating at a startling rate. “Many such girls have been rescued from flesh trade centres in Hisar, New Delhi, Bikaner and even several south Indian states..