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Five lands in jail for arranging child marriage

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A Chapainawabganj mobile court on Friday sentenced five people, including the bridegroom, to different jail terms for arranging the marriage of an underage girl in Sadar upazila.

Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Md Alamgir Hossain, who led the drive, said they conducted the drive at the houses of the bride and the bridegroom at Mohanpur and Bhabanipur villages respectively in the afternoon.

During the drive, the mobile court sentenced bridegroom Mehedi Hasan, his father Shafiqul Islam and mother Hanefa Begum to one year's imprisonment, reports UNB.

It also jailed bride's aunt Moslema Khatun and her husband Abul Kashem for six months.

Later, all of them were sent to jail.

 

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