Mysuru: Even though MySuru has witnessed children’s wedding cases, the level of confidence for almost zero crime.
Child welfare officials claim that small girls “influenced” by relatives during court trials, witnesses turned hostile, and cases lost with technical reasons.
In some cases, where there is evidence of photos and videos available, cases have not yet come to be tried.
The main challenge of children’s welfare officials faced in the case of child marriage, is a lack of seriousness in treating cases, and delaying responding to complaints in the authorities.
According to child welfare officers, more than 250 children’s wedding cases were prevented and detected in MySuru in the past year.
Officers in Periyapatna were active, and quickly responded to complaints, without waiting for assistance from the local police.
Despite the fact that they have faced the problem, it has not prevented them from saving small girls.
Child welfare officials in Periyapatna, who have differences in preventing children’s wedding cases, effectively stopping children’s marriage 32 in 2020 and 22 of them until July this year.
Last year six pine was registered, and this year in the first seven months, four pine was registered against relatives and parents to do a child’s marriage.
N Kumar, Children’s Development Project Officer (CDPO), Periyapatna, said that in the majority of children’s wedding cases, little girls who did not have a father were victims.
Their mothers want to eliminate their respiratory responsibilities, by marrying their little daughters.
In some cases the sick parents want to marry their little daughter.
Kumar said the marriage of a child was tall among certain communities in the region.
CDPO from Periyapatna also blamed the police because they did not respond to complaints about child marriages quickly, and accused them of not treating cases seriously.
“I have brought this to the notification at a high level in the district in the meeting,” he said.
“In most children’s marriages, the bridegroom is 10-15 years older than the small bride.
We received a warning about the marriage of a child from the 1098 children’s help channel, or through a teacher or worker of Anganwadi,” he said.
“Our efforts in saving small girls are waste because of non-cooperation with several officials,” Kumar added.
S child protection officer S was said to admit that Hae’s belief was almost zero in the case of a child’s marriage.
Recently, we experienced a setback on technical reasons in a case, during a cross.
We have discussed about how to overcome all these shortcomings.
Still cooperation of the police is needed to punish guilty people, “he felt “All our officers were ordered to be sensitive to cases related to children and women.
The leading role of the police here was first registering FIR and then investigating this case.
So far, I have not found a delay in responding to a child’s marriage case against police officers.
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