Navi Mumbai: Two 19-year-olds from Turbhe determined to get married and conscious of the regulation, the boy produced faux paperwork to point out himself as 22 years of age. They even managed to get three witnesses. Nonetheless, the plan didn’t work out and the couple, together with the witnesses, have now been booked beneath the Prohibition of Little one Marriage Act, 2006.
The couple had been faculty mates in Ghansoli and had been in a relationship. Based on police, the mother and father of each of them had been towards the connection. That’s why they determined to get married by giving faux paperwork because the boy was not of legally marriageable age. Authorized marriage age in India for a lady and a person is eighteen and 21 years, respectively.
After going through opposition from the mother and father, the couple determined to get married at Alandi by forging the paperwork of the boy. The lady’s father acquired a whiff about it and knowledgeable the police following which a baby marriage prohibition officer (CMPO) registered a case.
“The couple, together with three witnesses, visited a non secular place at Alandi in Pune and acquired married. The boy had submitted a faux faculty leaving certificates and Adhaar Card copy, which confirmed him as a 22- year-old man,” mentioned a police officer from Turbhe MIDC Police Station.
The couple had acquired married on January 13 with out informing their mother and father. The daddy of the lady acquired a whiff of it and approached Turbhe MIDC police following which they submitted a report back to CMPO.
CMPO Sonali Dhumal contacted the faculty and requested for the paperwork of the couple. It grew to become evident that each the lady and the boy had been aged 19 years and that the paperwork submitted at Alandi had been cast.
Each the children and the three witnesses (aged 25) of the wedding had been additionally booked by the police beneath the sections of Little one Marriage Prohobition Act and sections of the IPC for dishonest and forgery.
“For the reason that crime occurred in Alandi, the case has been now transferred to Alandi police station in Pune and they might be conducting additional investigations. As of now, no person has been arrested,” mentioned senior police inspector Ravindra Daundkar from Turbhe MIDC Police Station.