Committee to be Appointed to Investigate Child Marriages New Delhi, Feb. 9. Three hundred Indian women delegates to the All-India Women' Educational Conference, the large number of Indian women ever gathered together in the galleries of the Chamber, to-day heard the proceedings in the Legislative sembly on a private Indian mem= ber's bill falsing the age of consent of girls to 16 years in the case of unmarried girls and to 14 in the case of married, instead of 14 and 18, respectively, as at present, Mr, James Crerar, Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department, announced that the Government must oppose the bill as it must deal eavtiously with the problem. It had decided to appoint, later, a committee composed of officials and non-officials to investigate the problem and also the Jot child marriages
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