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Justice Rekha Palli opined that not treating physical presence as a mandatory requirement would also encourages parties to easily get their marriages registered. (Representational image: PTI)

Cabinet clears proposal to raise minimum age of marriage for women...

The move comes more than a year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the plan during his Independence Day...

16 Dec 2021 11:15 AM IST

The bill, as it stands now, states that if the bride is under 18 and the bridegroom is under 21, their parents must register the marriage within 30 days of the event .

Patralekha Chatterjee | Child marriage law in Raj: Why is civil...

Ironically, a BJP leader from Madhya Pradesh had once publicly pushed the cause of early marriages

23 Sept 2021 11:40 PM IST

Justice Ravindra Ghuge also directed the registrar general of the HC to circulate this order to all the principal judges in Maharashtra. (Representational Image)

Plea of lawyer accused of marrying minor dismissed

Bombay high court and had complete knowledge of the law despite which he married a girl less than half his age.

23 March 2018 3:44 AM IST

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26 children saved from being married off in Jharkhand

Though child marriage is banned in Jharkhand as per the Child Marriage Act of 2006, the pernicious practice continues to...

5 May 2017 6:02 PM IST

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PAC report slams poor implementation of Child Marriage Prevention Act

The state government records say that between 2010-13, there were only 45 cases of child marriage.

8 April 2017 5:31 PM IST