NO ACTION AGAINST MAN WHO MARRIED MINOR MUSLIM GIRL

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court has ordered that no coercive action can be taken against a 21-year-old man who eloped with a 15-year-old Muslim girl and married her in accordance with Sharia law, which holds the marriage of a Muslim minor girl, who has attained puberty, legitimate. Justice JB Pardiwala, however, directed police to carry out a probe into the girl’s alleged kidnapping after her father filed an FIR against the man, Jainulaabedin Yusuf Ganji. After an FIR was registered on November 10, Ganji filed an application in high court for quashing the FIR and produced the ‘nikaahnama’ (marriage proof) to prove that he had not kidnapped the girl.