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Arranged marriages vary widely by region and community across the Indian subcontinent. The marriage process usually begins with a realization in the family that a child is old enough to marry. For a girl, it is during her graduation or early twenties; for a boy, it is after he is 'settled', with a decent job and consistent earnings.
The law considers forced marriage a form of sexual violence and outlaw it, with offenders can be sentenced to a maximum imprisonment of 9 years and/or face a maximum fine of Rp200 million. Included as forms of forced marriage are child marriage, forcing rape victims to marry the rapists, and forcing people to marry in the name of local customs.
According to the research sponsored by the Royal Norwegian Embassy at Delhi, the Molki brides are arranged for marriage in 4 ways: Brides acting as marriage mediators, husbands of molki brides arranging brides for family and friends, marriage brokers also known as Dalals, and trafficking of women for forced marriages though this is not as prevalent. [4]
A man was reportedly kidnapped and forced to marry a woman at gunpoint in India. Video clips circulating online show a man identified as 29-year-old Vinod Kumar appearing to be forced to perform ...
Devastating footage from the north-central China province of Gansu shows a beautiful bride bawling at her wedding because she’s being forced into an arranged marriage. cgx20000307/AsiaWire
Groom kidnapping, colloquially known as Pakaruah shaadi or Jabaria shaadi, is a phenomenon in the western parts of Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh states, more prominent in Munger and Dumka (now in Jharkhand) wherein eligible bachelors are abducted by the bride's family and later forcibly married, to get men with better education and/or richer men.
Bride kidnapping, also known as marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, is a practice in which a man abducts the woman he wishes to marry. [ 1 ] Bride kidnapping (hence the portmanteau bridenapping [ 2 ] ) has been practiced around the world and throughout prehistory and history, among peoples as diverse as the Hmong in Southeast Asia ...
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