78 women among those held over crackdown against child marriage in Assam

At least 78 women have also been arrested as part of the Assam government’s crackdown against child marriage, in which more than 2,500 people have been arrested across the state so far.

A break-up of data on arrests which had taken place till 7:30 pm on Monday shows that a total of 2,442 people had been arrested till then, of which 78 of the arrested are women.