A father can marry his daughter in Iran

A father can marry his daughter, the bill is approved in the Parliament of this country

A Father can marry his daughter in Iran: The Iranian Parliament has approved a bill that is surprising. The Bill allows a father to marry an adopted daughter. According to the bill, if the adopted daughter is over 4 years old, then her father is allowed to marry.

 The bill was approved in Iran on 7 September. Meanwhile, countries are expressing surprise over the bill, while some social activists in Iran has protested.

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The bill has not yet been approved by the Security Council of Iran. Shadi Sadar, a human rights lawyer for the London-based group Justice of Iran, told The Guardian, "The bill is a form of legalizing sexual exploitation of children. 

Marrying an adopted daughter is not a part of Iranian culture. Iran has many immoral things like other countries, but the bill is similar to abolishing crimes against children in Iran. If the father is having sex with his adopted daughter, it is rape. "

Speaking on the bill, Shiva Dolatabadi, the head of an organization fighting for child rights in Iran, said he feared it would increase the number of juvenile offenses. In such a situation, children say that they will not feel safe in their family.

In Islamic countries, girls above the age of 6 can marry with the consent of their father. So for children it is 5 years of age. If the girl is under six years of age, it is necessary to obtain the consent of the judge for her marriage. About 3,000 children have been married in Iran in 5 to 8 years. According to the Iranian website Tabanak, only  4 children under the age of 6 are married in Tehran.

Similar news reported in West Bengal India

In Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, a person broke all the limitations and married his real daughter and got her pregnant too. Not only this, he has been saying to justify that this relationship has the approval of God. 

The most amazing thing is that no one else was witness to this marriage, the mother of the girl and the wife of that person. A tense situation has arisen in the surrounding area regarding this incident.

Afzuddin Ali, a resident of Kasaizhora village in Jalpaiguri, had hidden his marriage to his daughter from the villagers, so no one came to know about it at that time. Now after six months, the girl has become pregnant and it is being discussed everywhere.

This issue has caused tension in the village and people are even talking about attacking this family. Afraid of worsening the atmosphere, the police arrested Afzuddin, his wife Sakina and 15-year-old daughter. All three were produced in the SDO court but they had to release these people as criminal cases do not come under their jurisdiction.

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No complaint has been filed in this case and surprisingly not even a case of rape has been filed against Afzuddin. SDO Atanu Kumar said, "The police have not registered a case against these people and criminal cases do not fall in the court's jurisdiction, so these people were released without any condition."