TNN | Jul 14, 2012, 02.17AM IST
NADIA: Acting on a tip-off, the Nadia police stopped the marriage of a 13-year-old girl in Kotwali on Friday. The groom has been detained.
The local administration of Krishnagar had been informed that the minor girl was about to be married off at Bhatjangla-Bashakpara under Kotwali police station on Friday night. The groom was 30-year-old Uttam Ghosh of Kalirhat Senpara under the same police station. Police picked up Uttam from his home before the wedding could happen.
"We have called the guardians of both the bride and the groom for a meeting so that we can explain to them the ill-effects of minor marriage. We will also take a written undertaking from the girl's parents that they won't marry her off before she turns 18," said Krishnagar SDO Purnendu Majhi. The girl is a Class V dropout while Uttam is a rickshaw van-puller.Link: Minor's marriage stopped in Nadia
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