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Child marriage cases in India filed mostly against elopement, not forced unions, study says -Raghav Bikhchandani

-ThePrint.in

A Delhi-based legal resource group says its study analyses district and high court case law pertaining to child marriage in India between 2008 and 2017.

New Delhi: Child marriage cases in India have primarily been filed against incidents of elopement, as opposed to arranged or forced marriages, revealed a new study that aims to understand if the existing legislation — Prohibition of Child Marriage Act — serves its purpose.

Delhi-based ‘legal resource group’ Partners for Law in Development (PLD) conducted the study, analysing “district and High Court case law” pertaining to child marriage in India between 2008 and 2017. The law was enacted in 2007.

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