Summary:
The plea seeking ‘uniform minimum age of marriage’ was filed by BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay. The matter is urgent in public interest as prayed,” Kumar wrote to the Registrar of Delhi High Court. It is to mention that more than 125 countries in the world have a uniform age of marriage. As per the petition, some of statutory provisions, which are responsible for discriminatory ‘minimum age’ limit for marriage include — Section 60(1) of the Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872; Section 3(1)(c) of the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936; Section 4(c) of the Special Marriage Act, 1954; Section 5(iii) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and Section 2(a) of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006. It added that a higher minimum age will ensure “more autonomy to women in every sense”..