A middle-aged man has to face jail for solemnizing marriage with an underage girl in Larkana, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Tuesday.
Reportedly, a police party gatecrashed a marriage function in Nazar Mohallah in Larkana. Police were informed that 35-year-old Ashraf Kalhoro was solemnizing marriage with 12-year-old Naseem Kalhoro. They arrested the groom and bride’s father Zaheer Kolhro for arranging a marriage prohibited under the country’s law.
The Nikkah reciter, Maulvi Abdullah, fled the scene at the time of police raid.
SHO Rehmat Abbasi said that a case will be registered against the accused under the Child Act.
Reporter Abdul Khaliq Mughiri