Rohtak, March 27 -- Timely intervention by the Jind Child Welfare Committee, an NGO named Mission to the Desperate and Destitute (MDD) of India, and local administration prevented two child marriages in 24 hours in Jind involving girls just 15-years-old and 16 years and six-months-old, respectively.

In the first incident, the child marriage of a 15-year-old girl was stopped just in the nick of time when the officials reached the venue even as the groom's wedding procession was barely 10 km away in Narwana. Officials said as the news of the intervention spread, the wedding procession turned back. The girl was forcibly being married off by her family with a 20-year-old boy in Jind's Narwana on Wednesday, the officials said.

The team couns...