Fatima Mangre was married off aged just four by her father who then demanded a divorce for his daughter when he realised his mistake
An Indian girl of eight is believed to have become the world's youngest divorcee after leaving her 14-year-old husband.
Fatima Mangre was married off at the age of four by her father in Nakhi village, in the Shravasti district of India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
But the marriage was annulled four years later after dad Anil said he realised it was wrong to force her to marry at such a young age.
When the youngster's in-laws came to collect her to live with them and her teenage husband, Anil told them he wanted his daughter to wait until she was 18.
He told local media: "I finally realised that this practice of marrying off daughters so young was wrong and that she should have a childhood, and that it was my duty to provide that."
But the decision sparked a huge row with the boy's father, Dipak Bakridi, which resulted in Fatima's father announcing his daughter would divorce.
The annulment was arranged the following week.
The state government of India's northern Uttar Pradesh state has called for an inquiry into the incident.
Officials ordered a probe after Nirmala Samant, a member of the New Delhi-based National Commission for Women, sent a letter demanding details of the divorce and threatening action against the parents of the girl and the boy.
Samat said: "This is a scandal, we need more details before taking action.
"The girl's father must answer why he married her off at 4 years old and the boy's father must answer why he agreed to such a marriage and then went to demand the girl when she is barely 8 years old.
"This is insensitive, controversial and objectionable," she said.
Samat added that the NCW's attention had been drawn to an UNICEF report that found growing cases of child marriages in one of India's most populous states.
According to UNICEF, over 32.9 percent of the girls are married against the national average of 22.1 percent below the legally permissible age of 18 in the state.
The Shravasti district accounts for the majority of underage weddings in India, where the female literacy is just 19 per cent.
Fatima's father has already written to NCW, saying he should be pardoned because he stopped his daughter from being taken away by her in-laws.
He wrote: "I have already admitted my mistake. Social pressures are high in our village. But the marriage has been annulled. I have admitted it was wrong to marry her off so early.
"I now want to make things right. I want to give my daughter a good childhood. I will do everything to protect her."
The Bakridi family had no comment to make on the incident.
TK comments:
Tibetan Tantric Buddhism has a strong connection to Indian culture. It derives from Hinduism, and lamas love to have sex with little girls. The "great" guru Tsongkhapa teaches tantric sexual practice:
1. “Someone who ask the teacher for empowerment should make offerings first. A curtain is used as a screen. The disciple understands very well that the teacher is vajrasattva. Wisdom mothers with complete samaya, whose genitals are healthy and who are virgins over the age of 12 etc., are offered to the teacher. Just like the statement in the second chapter of Sutra on Great-Seals: “One should choose females who are most wise, virtuous, with slender eyes, having a wondrous dignified face, and aged from 12 to 16, or 20 if difficult to obtain. Females over 20 are used in other seals (mudra) because it will make all the stages of practice impossible to attain. One’s sisters, daughters, or wife are offered to the teacher.”
(Extended Treatise on the Progression of the Esoteric Path, Tsongkhapa, translated into Chinese by dharma-master Fazun, Wondrous Favor Publishing Co., 1986, p. 376)
2. “In the latter stage of the third empowerment, which is transmitted to enable the disciple to expound the sutras, the teacher and the nine female consorts, aged from 12 to 20, attain the state all together. The vajra which possesses the seeds is put into the mouth of his disciple; the empowerment is thus performed. In the former stage of the third empowerment, the teacher and a female consort receive the wondrous joy together; then, in the latter stage, the teacher attains the state together with the nine female consorts. The wondrous joys arise from all of them.
(Extended Treatise on the Progression of the Esoteric Path, Tsongkhapa, translated into Chinese by dharma-master Fazun, Wondrous Favor Publishing Co., 1986, p.399-400.)
3. The last secret empowerment, which is transmitted to enable the disciple to expound the sutras, means the teacher and the nine female consorts aged from 12 to 20, attain the state all together. The Vajra, possessing the seeds, is put into the mouth of his disciple; in this way, the empowerment is performed. It is the third empowerment, or the former stage, in which the teacher and a female consort receive the wondrous joy together; then, in the latter stage, the teacher attains the state together with the nine female consorts. The wondrous joys arise from them together. …
(Tsongkhapa, Extended Treatise on the Progression of the Esoteric Path, translated into Chinese by dharma-master Fazun, Wondrous Favor Publishing Co., 1986, p. 399-400)
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