Acting on a tip-off, a team of officials prevented the marriage of a 16-year-old minor girl scheduled here on Monday. Only now he learnt that she was a minor, the priest said. According to a press release issued here, the team of officials, led by Gracy Gonsalves, Deputy Director of Women and Child Welfare, reached the spot before the marriage took place. The latter agreed and gave a written bond that they would not marry off the girl till she was 18. He said that when he asked the girl’s mother, she had informed him that the girl was a major.
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