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After prohibition, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar now vows to end dowry, child marriage

While Bihar ranked 26th in the country in the number of crimes against women, it was an ignoble second after Uttar Pradesh in dowry related offences.

When a young man from his village came to him to help kidnap a girl to be his bride, it was just another job for Bakhtiarpur's deputy mukhiya Pappu Kumar. The girl, just 12, was abducted and forced to marry the youth. Pappu even coerced the

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