On the question of love and underage marriage
India, Nov. 16 -- They met at a wedding; she was 16 and he was 18. They exchanged numbers and were soon in love. When Anju's father started looking for a match for her, she told her mother about her boyfriend, Prem. Her father fixed a match anyway. Anju eloped, her father filed a case, Prem was arrested, and Anju was packed off to a shelter home where she discovered she was pregnant. She gave birth to a boy and is now waiting to turn 18 when she can be reunited with her husband, now out on bail. Her parents say she is dead to them....
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