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taluk on April 24. Opposition Superintendent of Police Amit Singh said that in many cases, girls had reportedly left their home with boyfriends to get married, in the wake of opposition from their parents. Skipping tactics A few days ago, a girl went missing in Arsikere only to avoid marriage scheduled for next month. She was not ready to marry the boy chosen by her parents. “However, we cannot rule out possibilities of human trafficking,” Mr. Singh said. The police have decided to constitute a special squad to probe such cases. “The special squad will collect data of such cases reported in the last one year and investigate them. The squad will probe whether girls, who went missing, had become victims of human trafficking,” Mr. Singh said. (Hindu, 06/05/2011) Police guidelines on ‘pravasi' marriages The Kerala police, in guidelines on ‘pravasi' marriages, have come out with a set of don'ts for women from India marrying an Indian citizen residing abroad or a person of Indian origin with foreign citizenship. Foremost among the guidelines is an advice that an Indian woman should on no account take a decision in haste by bowing to pressure from others. She should not enter into an alliance merely for getting fresh pastures abroad or a green card. Alliances should not be fixed over the telephone or through email without seeing the family members. Alliances should not be fixed with keenness and in haste merely because one got the impression that everything was fine. Marriages should not be fixed merely on the basis of talks with a bureau, agent or broker and by blindly believing what they say. Find out whether the claims made about the groom on marriage websites are correct. Marriages should not be fixed in secrecy. If the details are discussed with close persons, friends or relatives it might yield information that no other source could provide. An Indian woman should not agree to the conduct of marriage in a foreign country. She should, on no account, accept money offered by the husband or his nominee for separation. If there is pressure in this regard, she should inform the authorities about it. If the husband abandons the wife in India or abroad, or if he or his relatives harasses her, she should not remain silent. She should immediately approach the authorities. Bogus documents should not be made or used for going abroad. A woman should, on no account, become a partner in unlawful activities however much the pressure or inducement is. She should not succumb to pressure for taking legal action in the country in which the husband is residing. She can file a case in India. She should not succumb to pressure for involving in the case filed by the husband in the country in which he is residing. She should keep in mind the fact that in divorce cases, the laws are more favourable to women in India than in any other country. A woman need not worry if her husband obtains divorce in another country with or without their knowledge. It will not have any legal validity in India. It will have legal validity in India only if she appeared as a party in the case. A woman should not defame the husband or his relatives if she thinks that the husband is going to file a case against her. She should disclose things only in legally appropriate forums such as the police, advocate, social worker or court. She should not take the law into her hands to wreak vengeance. Strongarm tactics should not be adopted against the husband or his relatives to solve problems. If there is any problem, She should approach the government agency authorised to handle it. She should never file any false or meaningless complaint. (Hindu, 09/05/2011) Minor murdered after sexual assault in Haryana ROHTAK: Just two days after incident of rape and murder of a teenaged girl in Kurukshetra, body of an unidentified minor girl was recovered from a canal near Sampla town of Rohtak district during late evening hours on Saturday. With almost half naked, body was found dumped near the banks of the canal. Preliminary investigations suggested that the victim was strangulated after sexual assault. The police have started the investigations after registering a murder case at Sampla police station. "We have sent her viscera to establish sexual assault to the forensic lab at Madhuban in Karnal", sub inspector Hari Om Singh, the investigation officer of the case said. It is believed that she has been kidnapped from some other places and body was abandoned here after the crime, added Singh. Even as the medical confirmation is yet to be received, but forensic investigations have strongly indicated towards theory of murder after rape. The victim appears to be of 12 years of age and wore plastic bangles. The decomposed condition of the body indicated that she had dumped in the canal about 12 days back. It is worth mentioning that Sweeti, a 16 year old girl fell prey to similar kind of crime which took place in Kurukshetra. She was abducted by unknown youths on her way to bus stand to pick her father on scooter on Wednesday night. Next morning her body was next morning found in the fields in Samgoi village, about 20 km away. The police has not been able to nab or even identify the accused in any of these two cases so far. (TOI, 09/05/2011)
Girl, 15, forced to wed, police comes to rescue Locked up in a room for a week before being forcibly married off in filmi-style to a cousin, a 15-year-old girl was rescued by the police in Ariyalur and promised help to return to school. The police said the Class 10 student was forced by her mother into marrying her 19-year-old cousin so as to unburden responsibilities since her husband died and the family was poor. Putting up a stiff fight against her family, Geetha (name changed) appro-ached the local social welfare officials who took her to the police station and lodged a complaint. The mother, the groom and his parents have gone missing after the police registered a case of child marriage and sent the girl to be with a kind relative recently. Ariyalur SP Najmul Hoda said, “The girl was kept locked up in a room in the house of her father-in-law, who’s her mother’s brother, for a week before the marriage took place. It appears that the mother decided to marry off the girl as soon as her husband died. She thought her daughter would then be safer. This situation is not uncommon among the rural poor.” He promised to help Geetha to continue her studies. Reacting to the child marriage incident, R.Vasuki, commissioner, state social welfare department, said Geetha’s marriage was null and void in legal terms as the girl was barely 15. “It is against law to marry off a girl child before she turns 18. We will take up this Ariyalur case very strongly,” said the senior bureaucrat here. Though the “National Plan for Children 2005” had aimed at abolishing child marriage by 2010, a recent study by the Population Council of India said about a fifth of the women population in the country were found to have been married before turning 15 and around 50 per cent before reaching 18, the legal marriageable age. (AA, 09/05/2011) 47% of young Indian women marry before 18 MUMBAI: That India marries off its daughters in such a hurry that they have little time to grow out of their teens is a fact that no longer raises eyebrows. But what should come as a shock to a country that preens itself over its growing economic prowess is that we fare worse than sub-Saharan Africa, or for that matter, all of Africa put together, when it comes to child marriage. If that's not bad enough, sample this. The degree to which child marriage is practised in India is more than double the figure for Pakistan, a country we don't quite look up to as a role model. While India would like to believe that it will one day break into the league of countries such as the US and UK, we can take solace from the fact that a worldwide scorecard on child marriage shows that we're better off than Bangladesh, Mali and Burkina Faso. The US and UK dont even figure on the list. A 2011 data sheet called `The World's Women and Girls', released by the Washington-based Population Reference Bureau, shows that 47% of women in India between the ages of 20 and 24 were married by 18. This is higher than the average for South Central Asia (45%), of which India is a part. The average for Africa as a continent works out to 34%. Most African countries fare better than India, including Ghana, Sudan and Nigeria. While Pakistan's score works out to 24%, even Afghanistan, with a pathetic score of 43%, does a better job than India when it comes to curbing child marriage. Vibhuti Patel, director, post graduate studies and research (PGSR) and head of the PG economics department at SNDT University, who was an early advocate of India's feminist movement, points to the rather strange link between child marriage and the success of some of India's welfare schemes such as the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). SSA helps schoolgirls till Class IV, after which there are a large number of dropouts and ICDS children in the age group of 0-6. As a result adolescent girls, who mostly drop out after Class VII as they can't cope up with math, science and English, don't have to look after their younger siblings. ``In the absence of any programmes targeting adolescent girls in terms of vocational training or life-skill development by the state or by civil society groups, many parents are worried that these girls, who are now free of responsibility and have a lot of time on their hands, may end up in premarital relationships and turn unwed mothers,'' she said. That's why parents in even progressive states like Gujarat and Maharashtra marry off their daughters at an early age, said Patel. Pointing to the health consequences of child marriage, P Arokiasamy of the International Institute of Population Science, Mumbai, says child marriage has much to do with the low status of women in India. Arokiasamy says the practice has more to do with culture than development. Sex ratio in Africa is better than India since several tribal societies are matriarchal. In India, regions where the status of women is low, such as Rajasthan, Bihar and Jharkhand, have more child marriages. Even in Andhra Pradesh, which has a low fertility rate, a large proportion of women are married in their teens. Meanwhile, states like Himachal Pradesh, Goa and Jammu and Kashmir fare a lot better. (TOI, 10/05/2011)
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