Abduction Of Girls Drops Amid 50% Rise In Child Marriages In Odisha During COVID Pandemic
Bhubaneswar: Odisha witnessed a 50 per cent increase in child marriages during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 64 child marriages took between 2020 and 2021, the highest in the last decade, according to the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The number of cases registered under The Prohibition of Child Marriage…