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COIMBATORE: A 23-year-old man has been arrested for marrying a 16-year-old girl. The Thudiyalur all-woman police said the accused, Kathiravel Anand, a native of Karnataka, was in a relationship with the minor girl, a school dropout, for the past couple of months.
A police officer said Anand had moved to Vinobhaji Nagar at Mettupalayam from Karnataka for work. “He fell in love with the girl, who was living with her mother after her father’s death, a few months ago. They eloped a few weeks ago, got married in a temple and moved to a house at Narasimanaickenpalayam.”
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Close on the heels of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s appeal to Muslims (particularly those originally migrated from East Pakistan) of the State to adopt a ‘decent family planning policy for.