4 women held for minor's marriage

MANSA: Mansa police arrested four women for convincing a woman to marry off her 14-year-old daughter to a 17-year-old. The women had got Rs 30,000 from the boy's family this. Police on Tuesday recovered Rs 14,000 from the arrested women.
Mansa DSP Sulakhan Singh said, "Town resident Pammi Kaur was not on good terms with her husband Jaggi Singh and wanted to live separately.She came in contact of her sister Malkit Kaur of Sardulgarh and three other women, who prevailed upon Pammi in marrying off her minor daughter with a boy of Khilan village in the district." As the boy's mother had died long ago, the family agreed to pay Rs 30,000 to the women for getting a girl in the house to do household chores, the DSP said.
On getting to know about his daughter marriage, Jaggi Singh got a complaint registered against his wife. Investigating the matter, police found the complaint to be true and succeeded in recovering the girl. Police also arrested the women for illegally marrying off the minor girl, said DSP.
A case under the charges of kidnapping and Child Marriage Act has been registered against women and rape against the boy. The women have been identified as Malkit Kaur, Gurmit Kaur, Manjit Kaur, Melo Kaur of besides Pammi Kaur. The boy too has also been arrested.