Marriage of girls under 18 years is illegal in India. (File) The police and the District Women and Child Development department stopped a child marriage in Pune city on Sunday, taking the number of successful preventions in such cases in the district to 43 since January last year. “We managed to stop 43 child marriages since January 2025. However, in 14 cases, the minor girls were married, which is illegal. In such cases, First Information Reports (FIRs) were registered against the persons, including parents or other family members of the bride and groom, for arranging the child marriages. They were booked under sections of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006,” said Mangesh Jadhav, Pune District Child Protection Officer. On Sunday, Senior Police Inspector Shashikant Chavan of the Khadak police station received information that a 16-year-old girl was being married off in Pune city. The police passed on the information to the Child Helpline number (1098).…