Bahraini held in India for marrying minor

Hyderabad : A Bahraini national has been arrested in India for marrying a minor, according to reports published in Indian media.

“The city police late on Saturday night reportedly picked up a foreign national on charge of marrying a minor girl from the city. According to the police, the man, reportedly a Bahrain national, had come to the city last week and married the minor from Talabkatta in the Old City,” Indian daily Deccan Chronicle reported yesterday.

The journal said that “a police team headed by an inspector monitored the man’s movements and reportedly picked him up for questioning”.

“The police said that they had found a marriage certificate in possession of the Bahraini man along with a passport and few thousand Indian currency notes,” the report mentioned adding that police are working to identify the judge who solemnised the marriage”.

This comes amidst a scandal that shook the community after detecting a ring that arranges marriages of minor girls to men, mostly of GCC nationalities. 

The marriages involved 16-year-old girls and men above the age of 60. According to Indian press, payments of INR500, 000 (around BD3, 000) were made to seal the deals.