“We will continue to take bold steps to end this social evil,“ Himanta Biswa Sarma, chief minister of Assam state, said in a statement.
India is home to more than 220 million child brides, according to the United Nations, but the number of child weddings has fallen dramatically this century.
It takes the total now arrested to more than 4,800 people.
The legal marriage age in India is 18 but millions of children are forced to tie the knot when they are younger, particularly in poorer rural areas.
The results can be devastating, with girls dropping out of school to cook and clean for their husbands, and suffering health problems from giving birth at a young age.
In a landmark 2017 judgement, India’s top court said that sex with an underage wife constituted rape, a ruling cheered by activists.
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