[1] Assistant Professor, Amity Law School, Amity University, Jharkhand.

[2] Student LL.B. (H) 2nd Year, Amity Law School, Amity University, Jharkhand.

[3]  Child Marriage available at- https://www.unicef.org/protection/child-marriage (last visited on 24th December 2023)

[4] Banerjee, Sangeeta and Sharma, Gayatri (2022). The Status of Child Marriage in India: A Guide for NGOs and CSOs on Using the Law to End Child Marriages in India.

[5] Sec 10 of Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 states that “Whoever performs, conduct, directs or abets any child marriage shall be punishable with rigorous imprisonment which may extend to two year and shall be liable to fine which may extend to one lakh rupees unless he proves that he had reasons to believe that the marriage was not a child marriage.”

[6] Fan, S., Koski, A. The health consequences of child marriage: a systematic review of the evidence. BMC Public Health 22, 309 (2022).

[7] ibid

[8] UNFPA, Motherhood in Childhood: Facing the challenge of adolescent pregnancy, State of World Population, 2013.

[9] Art-21-A, The Constitution of India, 1950

[10] Ibid

[11] [2017] 10 SCC 800, AIR 2017 SC 4904.

[12] Supra