Government should take steps to bring back to India the UAE national who married a minor in Kerala for trial in local courts, a CPI member demanded in Rajya Sabha on Monday.
Raising the issue during the Zero Hour, M P Achuthan said government must make use of extradition treaty between the two nations and bring the person back to India for trial in Indian courts.
The person concerned had married a 17-year old girl from Kerala on June 13 and after spending 17 days in various Indian locations as a married couple fled to UAE.
Before leaving, he divorced the girl uttering the word "Talaq" thrice over phone. Though illegal, child marriage is rampant now-a-days with 4,000 such cases reported in one Kerala district in 2009-10. Achuthan said UAE nationals marrying girls from Kerala were very common earlier through the results were not good always.
The number of such marriages has come down at present, he said. Najma Heptulla (BJP) said government should draft laws for Muslim women also.
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