India, Aug. 4 -- It's a story playing on loop from Guwahati to Allahabad, Delhi to Meghalaya. The plot line is more or less the same: Teenagers in love. He's 18, 19, or maybe 20. She's 17 or 16. Everything is going smoothly until her parents find out. Perhaps she gets pregnant. Perhaps someone sees them together. Perhaps she's run off with him. But all hell breaks loose. Maybe he's of a different religion or caste, or maybe they're just angry at the daughter's exercise of choice.

They file a complaint of rape.

In 2014, when his 17-year-old daughter ran off with the 19-year-old man she loved, her father filed a missing person's complaint with the police. The police tracked her down to Ghaziabad where she told them she had married her boy...