Showing posts with label Arjun Bakridi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arjun Bakridi. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Child Marriage In India: 8 Year-Old Girl Divorces Her Husband, 14 ( What do you Think?)



Arjun Bakridi - The "husband"
An eight year old girl has become the youngest person ever to be divorced in India after she was married off aged just four. Fatima Mangre was given away by her father Anil, from the Shravasti district of Uttar Pradesh state, in an arranged a marriage with 10-year-old Arjun Bakridi.

However when the boy arrived four years later to take his new bride away, Anil said he wanted the girl to wait until she was 18 before leaving.
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