COVID pandemic sees spurt in child marriages in Chittorgarh Udaipur : The COVID pandemic persisting since a year is being seen as one of the reasons behind spurt in child marriage cases in Chittorgarh. Child activists claim that despite strict vigil on child marriages by the police and district administrations,judiciary people are still secretly organising weddings of their minor children especially girls. In past 30 days,11 incidents of child marriages were reported to the Chittorgarh child line, 3 of them were found false while 8 marriages were averted, luckily by the timely intervention of authorities.Of these eight weddings, 6 were of minor brides and two under aged grooms.