Govt. should implement strict laws against child marriages: Shamina Shafiq

Former National for Commission (NCW) member Shamina Shafiq on Tuesday demanded the implementation of strict laws to stop child marriages in the country.

"No matter how stringent rules are made in the country, if they are not implemented then these kinds of unwarranted incidents will keep taking place," Shafiq told ANI here.

"The parents think it is their right to get their children married and all those who marry in early age also think the same. So, till the time we don't make them aware and don't produce the fear of law among them that child marriages are prohibited such these things will keep on happening. Why it is that these students are not being told about their rights in the schools be it private or government? What do the schools wait for?" she asked.

A six-year-old girl and a minor boy were allegedly married by their families in Rajasthan's Chittorgarh district. Child marriage is illegal in India under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act of 2006.