Context
Under a recent development, the increase in minimum age of marriage for women to ‘21 years’ as provisioned in the Prohibition of Child Marriage Amendment Bill, 2021 would come into effect two years after the Bill is ‘notified’ following its passage in Parliament.
Background:
Jaya Jaitly committee and its recommendations:
Need for raising legal age:
Issues:
Prohibition of Child Marriage Amendment Bill, 2021:
Supreme Court’s stand:
The question is whether prohibiting marriage for persons between 18 and 21 years is a reasonable restriction on their ‘right to marry’. |
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