More than 2,000 men have been arrested across the Indian state of Assam in a police crackdown on child marriages. They have been arrested for either marrying or arranging the marriages of children. Those arrested included more than 50 Hindu priests and Muslim clerics for allegedly performing marriages for underage girls in Assam. In India, 18 is the minimum age […]
Mohammed Zubair was arrested on June 27, 2022, after he refused to hand over personal electronic devices used by him in 2018. A senior Delhi Police officer said the devices may have been used when Zubair allegedly made the ‘highly provocative’ social media post ‘against a particular religious community’. Police said Zubair was ‘evasive’ when asked questions and did not […]
An Indian father was arrested on December 18, 2021, after a failed attempt at delivering his wife’s baby at home. R. Loganathan, a 34-year-old trader from the Ranipet district in Tamil Nadu, attempted to deliver the baby at home with assistance from his sister. The brother-sister duo used home birth tutorials on YouTube to guide them. The Indian man’s wife, […]
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