Sri Lanka probes ‘longest saree’ marriage for regulating kids
COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan integrate is underneath review for deploying hundreds of propagandize children to lift a sight of a bride’s saree during a marriage ceremony, authorities pronounced Friday.
About 250 students of a state-owned propagandize carried a sight of a 3.2-kilometre (two-mile) prolonged saree ragged by a bride as she and a husband walked down a categorical highway in a executive district of Kandy Thursday, internal media reported. Another 100 students served as flower girls during a wedding.
The students were from a propagandize named after Central Province Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayaka who was a special guest during a wedding, according to media reports, that pronounced a saree was a longest ever ragged by a bride in Sri Lanka.
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The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) pronounced it was probing a incident. “We have started an investigation,” NCPA Chairman Marini de Livera told AFP. “We are going all out since we don’t wish this to turn a trend.”
De Livera pronounced deploying students for such ceremonies during propagandize hours was opposite a law, with violators confronting adult to 10 years in prison.
“What they (the marriage party) did is a defilement of child rights,” de Livera said. “Depriving children of education, risking their confidence and harming their grace are rapist offences.”
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