Purulia: Every second girl in India is married underage, according to UNFPA data. The UNFPA also says that India has the highest number of child brides. Nearly 47 per cent of girls are married under the legal age of 18. The agency adds that nearly 140 million child marriages may take place between 2011 and 2020 across most developing nations. This means that on an average, 39,000 child marriages will happen everyday.
It is this scary statistic that 16-year-old Sangita Bauri says she wants to change. She won't allow any child marriage in West Bengal's Purulia district, not under her watchful eyes.
Four years ago, she herself was on the verge of becoming a child bride. Her grandmother wanted to marry her off just because she was the oldest girl in the family.
However, it was in the local child labour school that Sangita learnt that marrying off a girl before 18 was illegal. Today she's studying in Class 8 and wants to be a policewoman....
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04:54 PM, May 01, 2013
Talks between India and Denmark on expediting the extradition of prime accused in Purulia arms drop case Kim Davy to face trial here failed to make any headway on Thursday as the European country asked for a fresh proposal which will be examined by their justice department. "The talks were held in a cordial manner and there was a discussion on extradition of Kim Davy," Union Home Secretary RK Singh...
08:16 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Purulia in West Bengal, which is known as a Maoist hotbed, has forgotten blood and strikes during Durga puja celebrations. The men of Tungta village of Purulia get ready to pay homage to the deity with the beats of Chhau. Fifty-year-old Dhona Mahato has been playing the goddess for 30 years. He says he dances in honour of the women of his village. ...
09:51 AM, Oct 21, 2012
New Delhi: India and Denmark are involved in a diplomatic row over Purulia arms drop accused Kim Davy's extradition. Source say the Indian government has issued a circular, restricting Danish diplomats from meeting government official in India. The move comes after Denmark authorities refused a request by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and India government to appeal against a Denmark court order to not extradite Kim Davy to India....
05:47 PM, Jul 12, 2012
West Midnapore: After the death of Kishenji, another major success by security forces was the surrender of key Maoist leaders Jagori Baskey and Rajaram Soren. CNN-IBN travelled to Jagori's home to find out how her parents felt about the surrender. Far from media glare in a remote village called Bagdoba at the Purulia-West Midnapore border, an old couple works on a small patch of land. They would have gone unnoticed...
08:29 AM, Nov 27, 2011
Purulia: A former Naxal who abandoned the outfit to join the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal had to pay a heavy price. His father and brother were shot dead by Maoists, raising serious questions about security being provided to those who give up the gun. On November 14, 2011, 62-year old school teacher Ajit, and his 22-year old son Banku were dragged out of their homes and shot through their...
08:32 AM, Nov 23, 2011
Purulia: Bodies of two Maoists killed in an encounter with joint forces on Monday night were found in the deep forests of Ghatbera in Balarampur area of Purulia district on Tuesday. IG, Western Range, Gangeswar Singh said the two were shot dead in the encounter which took place after the killing of two Trinamool Congress (TC) workers by the ultras on Monday. Two joint force personnel were injured in the...
11:05 AM, Nov 15, 2011
Purulia (WB): Suspected Maoists on Monday night shot dead two Trinamool Congress workers of the party at Balarampur in Purulia district, a party MLA said. The attackers, who came on a bike, called Ajit Singh Sardar (56) and his son Baku Singh Sardar (26) from their house to a nearby jungle at Ghatbera and shot them dead, Trinamool Congress MLA from Purulia KP Singhdeo said. The incident took place three...
09:54 PM, Nov 14, 2011
Purulia: Fourteen-year-old Bina Kalindi, a resident of West Bengal's Purulia district is fighting the illegal but still prevalent practice of Child Marriages. In the land of the powerful Goddess, her daughters are helpless. Even before they can realize, child marriage or 'ballo vivaho' abruptly ends their childhood and they are forced to walk into a life of unimaginable horrors. Sixteen-year-old Saraswati was married off at the age of 12 years....
08:51 AM, Jul 25, 2011
New Delhi: India has talked tough to Denmark on the extradition fiasco of Kim Davy, the main accused in the Purulia arms dropping case. Sources say, Copenhagen is obliged to ensure that Davy, a terrorist and a gunrunner, doesn't get shelter in Denmark. India has also warned Denmark of similar non-cooperation with respect to Indian criminals wanted by Danish authorities, if it doesn't ensure Davy's extradition to face trial here....
07:41 PM, Jul 08, 2011
New Delhi: The Government may make a fresh diplomatic move with Denmark after it refused to file an appeal in its Supreme Court for the extradition of Kim Davy, an accused in the Purulia arms drop case, to India. The CBI is also mulling other options to bring Davy to trial, including through video conferencing, after weighing other legal options. Jorgen Steen Sorensen, Denmark's Director, Prosecution, also acknowledged that a...
11:50 AM, Jul 08, 2011
New Delhi: India has lodged a strong protest with Denmark over the remarks made by Danish High Court about the human rights conditions in this country while rejecting plea to extradite Purulia arms drop accused Kim Davy, saying such observations were unacceptable. Sources in the Government said that the External Affairs ministry summoned the Charge d'Affaires on Monday and conveyed in no uncertain terms that such remarks about India's human...
07:59 PM, Jul 07, 2011
Former British intelligence man Peter Bleach was convicted in the Purulia arms drop case but later pardoned. ...
11:05 PM, Jun 30, 2011
New Delhi: In a major setback to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Niels Christien Nielsel alias Kim Davy, the key accused in 1995 Purulia arms drop case, will not be extradited to India to face prosecution in the case. The Danish court on Thursday rejected the petition to extradite Davy to India. The court rejected Davy's extradition on grounds of alleged human right violations in Indian jails. The five...
04:14 PM, Jun 30, 2011
New Delhi: The case of Kim Davy, the key accused in 1995 Purulia arms drop case will come up for hearing on Thursday in a Danish High court. India is hoping for his extradition. Niels Christien Nielsel @ Niels Hocks @Kim Davy is the main conspirator in dropping sophisticated arms and ammunition in West Bengal's Purulia district on the night of December 17, 1995. As many as 300 Bulgarian-made AK-47...
07:35 AM, Jun 30, 2011
New Delhi: The Danish High Court dismissed Purulia Arms drop case accused Kim Davy's plea that CBI's arrest warrant cannot be the basis for his extradition to India since it had expired and will deliver it's verdict before July. The CBI said Davy's plea that the warrant was an old one has in "no way" affected the appeal proceedings in Danish High court which continued it's hearings till Thursday as...
04:16 PM, May 20, 2011
New Delhi: Two days after the 'most wanted list' gaffe by the Home Ministry, there has been another major goof-up by investigating agencies. A CBI team landed in Copenhagen for Kim Davy's extradition in the Purulia arms drop case with an expired warrant. The team was unaware that the warrant, which had been issued by the Kolkata court in October 2010, had expired on the January 3. It was pointed...
08:00 AM, May 19, 2011
Purulia: Around 641 women belonging to a minority community will vote for the first time in two polling booths in Raghunathpur constituency in Purulia district on Saturday in the fifth phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections. The women had not voted earlier because they did not have Electoral Photo Identity Cards since they were unwilling to be photographed by a male photographer, District Magistrate and District Election Officer A...
02:14 PM, May 06, 2011
New Delhi: The CPI(M) on Friday demanded a judicial probe into Purulia arms drop case alleging "gross negligence" of the then Central Government in handling the same which was meant to destabilise the the Jyoti Basu government in West Bengal. The party also demanded that former MP Pappu Yadav should be interrogated as accused Kim Davy has told a news channel that he had helped him escape from the country....
07:21 PM, Apr 29, 2011
New Delhi: Twenty five armed Maoists captured the Urma railway station at Purulia, West Bengal on Thursday night. The station master was forced to keep the signals stationary at gun point and asked to vacate the station. Trains going through Purulia including the Purushottam Express, Tata Amritar were stranded through the night. The Maoists have now vacated the station. ...
02:46 PM, Dec 24, 2010
