Days after the Gauhati High Court observed that the crackdown on child marriages in Assam created “havoc in the private life of people”, a cross-section of society on Sunday appealed to the state government to look at it from a humane angle and focus more on creating awareness to end the social evil.

With Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma-led government stating that the ongoing drive against child marriages will be intensified, the Opposition termed the exercise as a “political stunt” with a “communal design”.