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Indian police arrest over 2,000 men for illegal child marriages

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CBS News

FEBRUARY 4, 2023 / 8:33 AM

Indian police have arrested more than 2,000 men in a crackdown on illegal child marriages involving girls under the age of 18 in a northeastern state, officials said Saturday.

Those arrested this week included more than 50 Hindu priests and Muslim clerics for allegedly performing marriages for underage girls in Assam, state police chief Gyanendra Pratap Singh said.

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