Bengaluru: Karnataka has reported the highest number of children’s marriage – 185 – in the country in 2020 and 66% more than 111 cases were recorded in 2019, according to data from the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB).
Assam came second with 138 marriages of children in 2020, West Bengal 98, Tamil Nadu 77 and Telangana 62.
According to the welfare of the welfare of women and children Karnataka, 2,074 child marriages were prevented between February and November 2020 when the Pandemic Covid-19 was at its peak.
The highest number of marriages of children avoided are in Ballari (218), followed by MySuru (177), Bataghiavi (131) and Chikkaballater and Chitradurga (respectively).
In the same period, 20 children’s wedding cases were prevented from Bengaluru.
In the same period, the firs was registered in 108 children’s weddings throughout the state.
In accordance with the data, the highest number of children’s marriage was carried out in Hassan (26), followed by Mandya (25), MySuru (24), Bellagavi (19) and Ramanagara (13).
In the city of Bengaluru, five child marriages were held in the same period.
Girls have 2 aadhaars to fake age: Expertaccording to Nagamani CN, the nodal coordinator of child lines, child marriages are often reported from cities such as Bengaluru.
“Unlike in the past, we received a call after the wedding was done, looking for legal intervention,” he said.
The officer gave an example of a 16-year-old girl, who called Helpline on Sunday after he was forcibly married by his family.
The Helpline staff reached the girl, who lived in a friend’s house, and took her to the rehabilitation center.
Nagamani said the girl came from Bengaluru and married a man from Mysuru two months ago.
“Want to continue his studies, the girl escaped from Mysuru and arrived in the city on Saturday and lived with her friend.
We communicate with their parents now,” he added.
Vasudev Sharma, Executive Director, Trust Child Right, said, “It is time for the legal position of a daughter to be explored.
Karnataka is the first country to change the middle action to make children’s marriage null from the beginning itself ‘.” He said the financial crisis released by locking It may have contributed to the surge in child marriage and added that it is the responsibility of parents and families to find out the adverse effects of child marriage.
“In many cases, we have found little girls who have two aadhaar cards and one of them is fake that shows their age as 18 pluses,” he added.