Bengaluru: Police rescue 15-year-old girl from child marriage
Bengaluru: Hoskote police, in coordination with the Women and Child Development Department, swiftly intervened to prevent child marriage and rescued a 15-year-old girl on Sunday. The rescue operation occurred around 2:00 AM at Kanaka Bhavan in Hoskote after one of the attendees at the reception suspected the girl to be a minor and alerted the police control room.
The young girl, from a village near Malur in Kolar district, was set to marry a 24-year-old man, Yashwanth C, from Shakthi Layout in Kodigehalli, KR Puram, as reported by the Times of India. The police, led by Inspector BS Ashok and accompanied by officials from the Women and Child Development Department, arrived at the scene and stopped the marriage reception.
Following the rescue, the girl was placed in a state girls' home in Doddaballapur. According to the news outlet, officials have not yet filed a complaint against those involved, including the girl's family members and the prospective groom.
The girl's father is an alcoholic, and her mother is responsible for the family's daily needs. The mother saw the marriage as a way to reduce the family's burdens, a cop told TOI. The bridegroom is a distant relative of the family.
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Bengal polls: RG Kar victim's mother files nomination as BJP candidate from Panihati
Kolkata (PTI): Ratna Debnath, mother of the raped-murdered RG Kar hospital doctor and the BJP candidate from Panihati, filed her nomination papers on Thursday.
She was accompanied by senior BJP leader and former Union minister Smriti Irani and district party leaders.
Speaking to reporters after filing her nomination, she said her sole aim is to oust the TMC regime in West Bengal, which, she alleged, would ensure women's safety in the state and prevent a recurrence of incidents like the RG Kar case.
Nearly a year and a half after the brutal killing of her 26-year-old daughter inside a locked seminar room of the state-run hospital in August 2024, Debnath agreed to contest the polls on a BJP ticket from her hometown Panihati after being approached by the party "to bring to light the truth behind the crime".
She is pitted against TMC's Tirthankar Ghosh and CPI(M)'s Kalatan Dasgupta.
