Leaders of the Samajwadi Party, the Trinamool Congress and the CPI were stopped from meeting the families whose homes and shops were razed to the ground by bulldozers in Delhi Jahangirpuri after the Hanuman Jayanti clashes.
Most women s rights activists have welcomed the Centre s move to increase the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years, but a few said that this step alone would not empower women and several others were needed.
Chairperson of the National Commission for Women Rekha Sharma on Friday called for increasing the marriageable age in all religions to 21 and said that the laws for the welfare of women should be the same.