Sindh police have arrested two landowners for forcing a peasant to give two infant daughters in marriage as repayment for a loan, a police official said.Police arrested Ali Nawaz Rind and Mohammad Ramazan Rind this week after they held a jirga (council of village elders) that ordered one-year old Moora and two-year old Marvi, the daughters of Bhongar Khoso, be given in marriage to the infant sons of Nawaz. "We have made pre-emptive arrests after we learnt that this jirga was held in Sanghar," said senior police official Ajmal Magsi. Police said Khoso had taken a loan of Rs 25,000 from Nawaz Rind. When he could not repay it, a village council was convened to decide the matter, and invoked the custom of sang-chati, whereby girls are used as bartering chips to settle disputes. The practice has been made illegal, but it is still prevalent in rural areas where feudal and tribal ways hold sway.