Historical decision of Supreme court on matrimonial case || Marriage dispute

Section 9 of the Child Marriage Prohibition Act, 2006 provides for punishment for adult male child marriage. Under it, "a male over 18 years of age contracts child marriage, may face a maximum sentence of two years of rigorous imprisonment, or a fine of up to one lakh rupees or both."

The Supreme Court has, in a recent judgment, provided that 'a male above the age of 18' contracts for child marriage ', written in section 9 of the 2006 Act, to' adult male child over the age of 18 ' Should be read as' does.

The court has also said that a male who is 18 to 21 years of age, who is married to an adult woman, cannot be brought under Section 9. Read Supreme Court's decision that a man between the age of 18 and 21 cannot be punished for marrying an adult woman.The court has said in its judgment that this act does not provide any punishment for women who are minor boys. Marries

The bench also explained why the adult woman is exempted from punishment for marrying a minor child under this act- "However, the adult woman is free from punishment for marrying a minor child because our Decisions of marriage and marriage in the society are taken by the bride and groom's relatives and in this case women usually have little opinion of themselves.

We are ready that we do not want to comment on the desirability of maintaining the above distinction in case of culpability. However, the context in which this difference was considered appropriate by the legislature should be taken into consideration.

As such, it can be concluded that the intention behind punishing only adult men of child marriages is to discourage brides who become future It is to protect minor girls from the negative consequences of child marriages by having the ability to reject such marriages on the basis of being over 18 years of age.

JUDGMENT HERE