Mumbai: A grandmother was getting her 15-year-old granddaughter married in Mumbai's Shivaji Nagar.  But after information from a social worker, the Women and Child Development Department (WCD) and the police reached the spot and stopped the marriage. At the same time, the grandmother said that it has become very difficult to survive due to the corona epidemic. She has no money, that is why she was getting her granddaughter married at a young age.

Child Protection Officer Prajakta Desai said that a 15-year-old girl studying in class X was being married to a 23-year-old man working in a call center. He said that the girl's 69-year-old grandmother was unable to take care of her and her elder brothers. She was living on the streets of Shivaji Nagar begging for two days of bread.

Prajakta Desai further stated that, "The girl's father died just before the epidemic and her mother died a few years ago. In the crisis of the Corona epidemic, the grandmother was not getting any domestic work due to this. She was forced to marry her minor granddaughter. "

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