Indians secretly married quarantine and broke law

Pandemic marriages are recognized illegal in India: the newlyweds violated the law, so their union can not be legal. About it reports The Hindustan Times.

We are talking about a particular state of the country – Madhya Pradesh. It is there that the authorities will announce the prisoners in May Marriage illegal: during this period, the Indian Parliament introduced a ban on marriage, since the incidence of COVID-19 was extremely high.

Despite the prohibitions and danger of infection, some couples still married secretly. According to official statistics, the authorities managed to “prevent” about 130 marriage ceremonies.

“If there is no punishment for this, the couple continue to conclude marks secretly. And now they will all be declared illegal. Measures will be adopted not only against newlyweds, but even against family members and priests,” said the district magistrate of Udjin Ashish Singh.

In the summer of 2020, it was reported that against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic in India, the number of children’s marriages increased dramatically. As the main reasons for such unions, the authorities are called the deterioration of the financial situation of families due to the crisis. So, parents give daughters to another family to remove part of the costs of its content. In addition, during a pandemic in India, many schools were closed, where children were fed dinner – this also led to the deterioration of local families.

/Media reports.