Earlier than the ‘Nikkah’, the police intervened and arrested the 72-year-old groom
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa:
Police foiled an try and marry off a 12-year-old woman to a 72-year-old man in Charsadda city and arrested the groom, ARY Information reported.
In accordance with police, the woman’s father, Alam Syed, had agreed to promote her to the previous man for PKR 500,000. Earlier than the ‘Nikkah’, the police intervened and arrested the 72-year-old groom recognized as Habib Khan, and the ‘Nikah Khwan’ (an individual who solemnizes the wedding). However, the woman’s father fled the scene.
Nevertheless, the case has been registered in opposition to the woman’s father, the 72-year-old man and the ‘Nikkah Khwan’ beneath the Youngster Marriage Act, in accordance with the ARY Information.
Regardless of legal guidelines in opposition to youngster marriage, such incidents continued to happen in Pakistan.
Lately, regulation enforcement businesses thwarted related makes an attempt in Rajanpur and Thatta, the place younger women have been being compelled to marry older males. In a single case, an 11-year-old woman in Rajanpur, Punjab, was set to marry a 40-year-old man, as per Ary Information.
Individually, a younger woman was forcibly married to a 50-year-old landlord in Thatta however fortuitously, she was saved after the well timed motion of the police.
On Could 6, the police arrested a 70-year-old man for marrying a 13-year-old woman in Swat
A 13-year-old woman was married to a 70-year-old man in Swat by her father. Getting the data, the police swung into motion and took the groom and father of the minor woman into custody, the ARY Information stated.
The Nikkah Khwan and the wedding witnesses have been additionally arrested, whereas the minor woman was despatched to a hospital for a medical examination.
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