Child marriage is still a harsh reality Indians are facing and putting up with. Still in many parts of the country, who knows right this minute, a daughter (who’s not even 18) might be getting married off under family pressure and even the thought of it is making our hearts break.
But, there is a 12-year-old whose suffering has shocked us to the core. The incident has come to light from Madhya Pradesh’s Guna district, where an uncle tricked his twelve-year-old niece into marrying him after his wife left him.
The accused, a resident of Sayaadehpura locality of Guna, Razak Khan is the victim’s aunt’s husband, hence uncle (mausa). The victim had come to her maternal grandparents’ house from Rajasthan’s Chavda district.
According to the News 18 report, after his wife left him, Khan decided to marry his niece. He convinced her to come to her nani’s house so that he could execute his plan.
In presence of his father Raees Shah who acted as guardian, brother Abdul who acted as a lawyer, and Imans Haafiz Zahid, Ashfaq Ali and Afsar Ali, Razak married the young girl at the house. To show the marriage as legal, they changed her age from 12 to 18 years old.
They told her that they were playing doll marriage, and she believed them. After two months of being locked up inside the house, the girl had no contact with her family. When the daughter didn’t return home, the mother got worried. It was then, she was informed by her mother that the victim was married to Khan.
The mother reached Guna and with the help of the police, rescued the daughter from the accused’s place. Upon seeing her mother, the poor girl sobbed incessantly and recounted her ordeal.
The man has been arrested under POSCO Act and several sections of the Indian Penal Code. His accomplices are in police custody too.
That little girl just wanted to spend her vacation at her nani’s place and went through the traumatic life-changing experience. What was her fault?