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Girl comes to school wearing thaali, five booked under Child Marriage Act
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
|February 12, 2025
FIVE people, including a 25-year-old man, his parents and in-laws, were booked under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act on Monday after teachers of a government school in Krishnagiri noticed a 14-year-old girl wearing thaali to school and informed social welfare department officers.
Social welfare department sources told TNIE that the girl was married off to a 25-year-old man in the wee hours after which she attended school. "She was married to a 25-year-old man, a carpenter living near Kaveripattinam, in a temple near Bolupalli. As she attended school with thaali, teachers realised she was married and informed child protection department. They informed social welfare department. A team from child protection and social welfare
This story is from the February 12, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Nagapattinam.
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