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Child marriage crackdown: Hundreds arrested in India's Assam state

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Every year, 1.5 million girls in India are married before they turn 18.
Now, authorities are arresting people involved in the illegal practice.
But experts say social change, not arrests, is the way to end child marriages.

Al Jazeera's Pavni Mittal reports from Barpeta in Assam state, northeast India.

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