DADU: A groom, his father and Nikah registrar were arrested in a raid on a marriage ceremony near Wahi Pandhi town of Dadu district on Friday.

Police had received information that an underage girl was being wedded at a house in Pir Bakhsh village, located near Wahi Pandhi town of Johi taluka.

The police conducted a raid and took the 11-year-old girl into safe custody.

The groom, Javed, his father, Sikandar, and Nikah registrar, Maulvi Manzoor Lashari, were booked at the area police station under relevant sections of the Child Marriage Restraint Act.

They said the suspects were produced in a court in Johi to obtain their five-day remand.

Published in Dawn, March 26th, 2022