Baby rescued
A new-born boy was found alive 24 hours after being buried to save his unmarried teen-age mother from the penalties for illegal sex. The police opened the grave after some residents of the village in northern Bangladesh said they suspected something valuable had been buried. Premarital sex is illegal under Islamic law but local authorities said Kajali Begum, aged 16, would not be charged because the father had agreed to make her his second wife.—Dhaka.
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Press, 8 July 1986, Page 35
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