GUWAHATI: Assam is currently on a massive crackdown against child marriage, where thousands of people have been put under the custody for engaging in the social evil. The crackdown is being supported by severals while few people have stood against it.
The national broadcaster of United Kingdom, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has demonstrated their complete support in the drive against child marriage, led by Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma. The BBC published an article, and the title itself implied that Indian women somehow supports the concept of child marriage.
The piece was titled as ‘Indian women protest against child marriage mass arrest’. As a matter of fact, BBC in its report implied that child marriages still exists in Indian society because of high amount of patriarchy.
Later, the BBC released another piece with the title ‘Assam: India child brides desperate after mass arrest’. In this particular article, Zoya Mateen, a BBC writer, claims that men involved in child marriage, who are under inside the jail right now, leaves their brides without any sort of support.
The BBC attempted to showcase that the drive against child marriage is somewhere discriminatory against the Muslim communities as these people are mostly engaged in the activity. The debate on child marriage continues, as for several years BBC’s star, Jimmy Savile was on the buzz for his activities related to child abuse.
The first accusation against the BBC legend came forth in the year 1958. Amidst the child marriage crackdown in Assam, stories have come up where the drive has led to miserable deaths across the state. A 16 year old pregnant minor girl died while she was on the way to a hospital in Assam’s Bongaigaon district.
As per the reports, the family initially tried to make the girl deliver her baby inside their own residence. As a result, complications arose and her conditions deteriorated further. Later, she was rushed towards Chalantapara health centre. From there, the medical authorities recommended her to Bongaigaon hospital. Unfortunately, the teenager couldn’t bear the pain and lost her life during the process.
As soon as the concerned police department received the information, a team immediately arrived at the location and apprehended the girl’s husband and father. The duo has been identified as Sahinur Ali and Aynal Haque. Dr. Paresh Rai, the Joint Director of Health of Bongaigaon district informed that, the minor pregnant died because of post-partum hemorrhage. However, the exact cause will be ascertained only after the process of post-mortem.
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