Assam Cabinet

Assam/Hyderabad, Feb 24 (Maxim News): The Assam Cabinet took a significant stride in prohibition child marriage within the state by repealing the "Assam Muslim Marriages and divorces  Registration Act, 1935.

As decided by the Assam Cabinet to register cases under the POCSO Act against men who marry girls below the age of 14, it also stated that action will be taken under the Child Marriage Prohibition Act 2006 against those who marry girls…