Viral child marriage video from Banaskantha leads to police complaint
About two months earlier, a video of the child marriage of a minor girl in Danta taluka, Banaskantha district, Gujarat, went viral. The authorities then took action.
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The child protection officer of the district social welfare department investigated the case together with the police.
The officer described it as a plot to sell the sixteen-year-old girl for money by marrying her, through a broker, to an adult man. A complaint was filed at Hadad police station against the girl's father, the broker who arranged the marriage and the man who married her.