Indian girl marriage to Arab national must be registered

Hyderabad, Feb 10: Compulsory registration of marriages of Muslim girls to Arab nationals was recommended by The National Commission for Women (NCW) which is trying to address trafficking of child brides.

This is among a series of recommendations the women's panel sent to the Centre after it conducted a study into the trafficking of Muslim child brides in Hyderabad's Old City. The Centre shared the panel's proposal with the Telangana government in the last week of January.

Alok Rawat, a member of the national women's panel, and Telangana women's commission chairperson Tripurana Venkataratnam conducted the study after the Hyderabad police unearthed a child bride trafficking racket in September 2017.