Thane, May 25 (PTI) Seven persons were booked in Mumbra in Thane district for allegedly getting a minor girl married off without her father’s consent at a mass wedding ceremony, a police official said on Monday.
The mass ‘nikah’ was organised on December 2 last year in Sonaji Nagar, the official said quoting the complaint, which was lodged by a woman social worker.
“At the mass wedding, a girl, whose date of birth as per Aadhaar details is September 30, 2008, which means she is not yet 18, was married off without the consent of her father,” the official said.
Those booked under Prohibition of Child Marriage Act include the organisers of the mass wedding ceremony, the qazi who solemnised the ‘nikah’, the girl’s mother, groom and others, including the principal of a school, he said.
No arrest has been made in the case and further probe is underway, the Mumbra police station official informed. PTI COR BNM
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