AN OVERVIEW ON CHILD MARRIAGES IN INDIA

Author– KHUSBU DEDAVAT, STUDENT AT THAKUR RAMNARYAN COLLEGE OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI 

Best Citation – KHUSBU DEDAVAT, AN OVERVIEW ON CHILD MARRIAGES IN INDIA, Indian Journal of Legal Review (IJLR), 3 (2) of 2023, Pg. 150-155, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344.

ABSTRACT

Marriage is one of the important thing but child marriage is not a legitimate thing to do as violating child right to marry her or him at early stage and taking away his childhood and also committing a crime of sexual offences as mentioned in POCSO Act, 2012. In this research will see how In India child marriage involved and who take action towards this child marriage made a major reform by Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1872 and subsequently ,The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929 and the final legislation of The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act ,2006 which is made since lastly with the increasing legal provisions to restrain child marriage will see in this article with all over in world wide the child marriage is supported to be banned by many organizations  by supporting and making law in many conference which will see in this article. And also the recent 2022 Issues on Child Marriage and how the law is applied and implemented in India by providing stringent fine on it.

KEYWORDS – Child Marriage, Prohibition, High Court Judgement, Child and Minor