{"id":5384,"date":"2020-01-05T16:46:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T11:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2020-01-05T16:46:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T11:16:28","slug":"child-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/child-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: Social Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The anti-child marriage law does not intend to punish a male aged between 18 and 21 years for marrying a \u201cfemale adult,\u201d the Supreme Court has held in a recent judgment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Bench led by Justice Mohan M. Shantanagoudar was interpreting Section 9 of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, which says: \u201cwhoever, being a male adult above 18 years of age, contracts a child marriage shall be punishable with rigorous imprisonment which may extend to two years or with fine which may extend to one lakh rupees or with both.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The court said neither does the provision punish a child for marrying a woman nor a woman for marrying a male child. The latter because \u201cin a society like ours, decisions regarding marriage are usually taken by the family members of the bride and groom, and women generally have little say in the matter.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The sole objective of the provision is to punish a man for marrying a minor girl. \u201cThe intention behind punishing only male adults contracting child marriages is to protect minor girls,\u201d the court reasoned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It said the 2006 Act also gives an option for prospective grooms who are between 18 and 21 years old to opt out of marriages.<\/li>\n<li>The case at hand concerned a boy who married a 21-year-old woman when he was 17 years old.<\/li>\n<li>The Punjab and Haryana High Court had set aside its own order providing protection to the couple, and initiated prosecution against the boy for contracting a child marriage, in which he himself was the child.<br \/>\n\u2022 The Supreme Court set aside the HC order, saying the intent behind Section 9 was not to punish a child for contracting a child marriage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: Social Justice Why in news? The anti-child marriage law does not intend to punish a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-studies-ii","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5385,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions\/5385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}