LUCKNOW, May 23 -- The mother of a 13-year-old girl has accused her husband's elder brother and three others in Pilibhit of forcibly marrying off her minor daughter under the chief minister's mass marriage scheme in January this year to get gifts given as part of the scheme.

A Pilibhit police official confirmed that the girl's mother lodged an FIR at Madhotanda police station under Pooranpar police circle on Wednesday (May 22), alleging that her minor daughter was forcibly married off to a youth of Deoriyakala village.

He said the woman had accused her husband's elder brother and three others of committing the fraud. He said the complainant claimed that her daughter was married in the mass marriage event held at Drummed College ground o...