Overview

• After a coerced ceremony on December 9, 2024, the teenager was married at 16 to a 32-year-old civil contractor who cited her family’s debt.
• Subjected to confinement and daily abuse, she fled her in-laws’ home on March 31 to pursue her Class 10 studies.
• Her mother subsequently filed a kidnapping FIR against friend Saurabh Kumar in April, concealing the prior marriage from investigators.
• She petitioned the Supreme Court in New Delhi to annul the union under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, and seek prosecution of her husband and in-laws.
• The court has asked Bihar authorities for a sealed status report by July 15 ahead of its next hearing.