A mobile court jailed for a month a marriage registrar for arranging an early marriage and a man for marrying an under-aged girl at Kalai in Jaipurhat on Friday night.
Local people said that Afzal Hossain, of Dhap Khetail of Kalai was giving his 13-year-old daughter, a student of Class VIII, in marriage with 21-year-old Mamunur Rashid, of Aora at Kalai.
On being informed, the mobile court reached the place after the registrar, Abdul Karim, had registered the marriage and the ceremony was going on.
The mobile court, headed by the Kalai upazila nirbahi officer, Abdur Rahim, arrested the registrar and the groom and jailed them for a month.
Soruce : New Age
