<p>Thane: Police in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/maharashtra">Maharashtra’s </a>Thane district have booked 12 persons, seven of them identified, for allegedly kidnapping a teenager and forcing her into marriage, an official said on Friday.</p>.<p>The 18-year-old complainant told the police that she was first taken to Navsari in Gujarat under the pretext of a temple visit and then to a relative’s place in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh.</p>.Over 5,300 arrests in Assam puts the spotlight back on rampant child marriages in Muslim-majority districts.<p>The teenager told the Kalwa police that her relatives forcibly got her married to one of the accused persons.</p>.<p>A case has been registered against 12 persons under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for kidnapping, criminal intimidation and wrongful confinement. Seven of them have been identified so far, the official said. </p>
<p>Thane: Police in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/maharashtra">Maharashtra’s </a>Thane district have booked 12 persons, seven of them identified, for allegedly kidnapping a teenager and forcing her into marriage, an official said on Friday.</p>.<p>The 18-year-old complainant told the police that she was first taken to Navsari in Gujarat under the pretext of a temple visit and then to a relative’s place in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh.</p>.Over 5,300 arrests in Assam puts the spotlight back on rampant child marriages in Muslim-majority districts.<p>The teenager told the Kalwa police that her relatives forcibly got her married to one of the accused persons.</p>.<p>A case has been registered against 12 persons under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for kidnapping, criminal intimidation and wrongful confinement. Seven of them have been identified so far, the official said. </p>