Vani

K-P police registered FIR against 17 accused and took 12 into custody; says efforts on to arrest others

13-year-old girl was married as Vani as a punishment for his brother's alleged illicit relationship

Police have arrested girl’s father and nikah khawan

Kidnapping case foiled, suspects apprehended

Police have sent DNA samples to Punjab Forensic Lab for analysis

Police arrest four people, cleric who solemnised the nikah and the head of Panchayat still at large

Muhammad Mudassir, 27, has been arrested and charged with murder

Marriage was supposed to take place today

Vani is an old custom under which women or minor girls are married to men of rival families to resolve blood feuds

Women are used as bargaining chips to settle territorial disputes or as equivalent of ‘blood money’ in cases of murder