Guwahati: On February 16 this year, a 13-year-old girl Mehbuba (name changed) of Kokrajhar district in Assam would have got married off to a man more than twice her age had it not been for Elias Rahman Sarkar, an activist from Dhubri district.
...Why Northeast witnesses highest rates of child marriages in India
Tripura, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh recorded child marriage and teen pregnancy rates higher than the national average, as per a 2017 report by National Commission for Protection of Child Rights