sanjiv is now supporting his family by working as a ticket collector at the rural bus service. >> it is one of the worse rates of child marriage in the world. 41% of girls are married before their 18th birthday even though under nepali law since 2002 the legal minimum age for marriage is 18 this would suggest that four out of five girls get married before the age of 18. parents as well as children under that it is illegal. but social pressures are so high that even activists who want to lodge complaints against these child marriages face pressures themselves. >> a 14-year-old who married 25-year-old. their marriage has given rise to the only court case brought this year in this district. her mother has taken her own parents to court after the arrange of marriage for their underage granddaughter. she insists that she's 18, and there are no documents to prove her age. i'm married because i fell in love. my mother is a bad woman, she says. the human rights activists who sponsored this court case have to tread carefully. >> evenhe police are heading to take action against people especial