[2] Although baad is illegal under Afghan law, many of the victims do not know their rights, and still more are prevented from exercising them.
[3] After a person commits a serious crime, a council of elders called jirga decides the punishment.
[1] In theory, the woman or girl is given in forced marriage to a male in the victim's family.
No jirga elder or family is known to have been arrested or tried for taking or giving a woman or girl in baad.
The practice of baad is mostly reported in Afghanistan's provinces of Kunar, Helmand and Balkh.