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Updated Mar 03, 2021 | 20:33 IST
A teenaged girl approached the Bhilwara court, seeking the annulment of her marriage that took place around 12 years ago. After realising that she wanted the annulment, the girl spoke to her parents (Representative Image). | Photo Credit: iStock Images
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The teenager approached the court seeking the annulment of her marriage
Ajmer: An 18-year-old girl, who was married off at the age of 6, approached the Bhilwara court on Tuesday, seeking the annulment of her marriage. After hearing the girl s claims, the court directed the summon to her husband.
The girl said that she was ignorant when she got married. However, after she turned an adult, the girl realised that she was against the marriage.
Girl knocks court s doors after tolerating torture of child marriage for 12 years
After suffering for 12 long years subsequent to marriage at the tender age of seven, 18-year-old Mansi Gurjar has finally summoned courage to initiate steps to annul her child marriage.
| 2 March 2021 9:10 AM GMT
JAIPUR: After suffering for 12 long years subsequent to marriage at the tender age of seven, 18-year-old Mansi Gurjar has finally summoned courage to initiate steps to annul her child marriage.
A resident of Paladi village of Rajasthan s Bhilwara district, Mansi knocked the doors of Bhilwara s Family Court and filed the case for annulment of her child marriage on which Family Court Judge Mukesh Bhargava has issued summons to her so-called husband .
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As the COVID-19 pandemic raged, organisations around the world raised alarms about the rise in child marriages. Non-profit organisation Save The Children warned that “half a million more girls are at risk of child marriage in the pandemic year, and the increase is set to reverse 25 years of progress, which saw child marriage rates decline.”
Analysis conducted by the NGO revealed that a further 2.5 million girls were at risk of early marriage by 2025, only because of the pandemic. Added to the 58.4 million child marriages taking place on average every five years, this amounts to a staggering 61 million child marriages by 2025, as reported by Save the Children.
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JAIPUR: Schools, colleges, universities and coaching centres across Rajasthan will reopen from January 18. While schools will run classes only for IX to XII standard students, in colleges and universities students of final-year degree courses alone will be allowed to attend classes on the campus.
With the COVID-19 recovery rate touching 96.31% in the state and some districts reporting zero cases, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced the decision after a review meeting on the pandemic and claimed that educational institutions could start functioning in the improved situation which is now far better than the scenario of about a month ago.