Teen Seeks To Nullify Child Marriage

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    • Publish Date: Apr 24 2017 11:17AM
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    • Updated Date: Apr 25 2017 10:41AM
Teen Seeks To Nullify Child Marriage

A 17-year-old girl, who was married when she was just 15, has approached a court in Rajasthan to seek annulment of her marriage.


 
The girl, resident of Balesar block of Jodhpur district has filed a petition in a family court here with the help of Saarthi Trust, an NGO, to nullify her marriage. "The girl contacted me and sought help to fight against the injustice and to file a petition in the family court to nullify her marriage," Managing Trustee and Rehabilitation Psychologist of Saarthi Trust, Kriti Bharti told.

 

Her background
The girl, whose father is a truck driver and a resident of Agolai village, was married off to Jasaram of Dudubera village in Balesar block in November 2015 against her will.


 
She went against her family
Two years later when she refused to go back to her in-laws and decided to end the marriage, her in-laws sought the help of the 'panchayat' to dissuade her, but when that did not work they threatened to kidnap her if she dared to go to court. Fearing a backlash from the community her father too threatened to hang himself to dissuade her from filing the petition. Despite all that, the girl filed a petition in the family court of Jodhpur to nullify her marriage with the assistance of Kriti Bharti. 

 
 

What the girl said?
"I wanted to study and wanted to stand on my own feet so as not to depend on others. I do not want the bonds of child marriage. Now I have filed the case for child marriage annulment with the help of Kriti Didi (sister). I am hoping to get justice soon," the teenager said.


 

Did you know?
1. A third of the world's child brides are in India with about half of Indian women having married before they turned 18, said United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
2. Rajasthan leads the country in child marriages with 10.29 lakh or 2.88% of 3.57 crore married people before they completed the first decade of their life. This is followed by Andhra Pradesh (2.70%), Maharashtra (2.57%), Karnataka (2.43%), Uttar Pradesh (2.10) and Gujarat (2.09%).
 

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Haya Naved FATHER AGNEL SCHOOL(GAUTAM NAGAR)

Just imposing laws to nullify child marriage won''t do I feel because Indians have literally mastered on how to violate laws. Forcing somebody to do something would not change his mentality it would just make him do the correct thing out of fear. In India it is necessary to educate people on this issue. Because only when we are successful in altering the ideology of the people the issue would be properly resolved.

Aikya Oruganti Epistemo Global - Vikas Leadership School

Yes !These little brave moves are needed .Children are misleaded in every matter these days.

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