Insult to society

Sir, - The recent mass marriage of 80 children in Jodhpur is a grave reminder that some sections of society still live in the dark ages. The children were not even aware of what marriage meant. Such marriages are an insult to people such as Raja Rammohan Roy and Swami Dayanand Saraswati who struggled to rid society of such evils.

The State Government should take firm steps to put an end to such practices.

Kanika Tandon,

New Delhi

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Sir,- Child marriage is not only a violation of the Sarada Act and the Hindu Marriage Act 1955, and Section 5 of the Act provides that the bridegroom should have completed 21 years and the bride 18 at the time of marriage. That in India no case has been filed against anybody relating to child marriage goes to show the sorry state of affairs.

K.V. Raman,

Chennai

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