The virility of Muslim men vis-à-vis men from other religious communities have often been used as a political tool and to create a divisive agenda just before elections for getting votes from the majority of the Indian electorate who are Hindus. Instead of focusing on positive agendas like human development, employment generation, and poverty reduction, political campaigns just before the elections oftentimes reduce to mere communal propaganda (when a lot...

-Newsclick.in The AIDWA pointed out that before the amendment, the 2009 Act already provided for the registration of Child marriages, which appears to give legitimacy to such marriages. The All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) has called upon the Rajasthan government to take measures to reduce Child marriages after the state Assembly passed an amendment to a 2009 legislation amid uproar. The Rajasthan state Assembly on Friday passed a bill to amend the...

-IndiaToday.in NCRB data found a sharp jump in Child marriages during the Covid-hit 2020. Records show that 785 cases were registered across the country under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act in 2020, the highest in Karnataka at 184.   In January this year, a 27-year-old woman approached the Delhi High Court with a plea seeking to treat all Child marriages as void ab initio (invalid from the beginning). She was a...

-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...

-Down to Earth Child marriages surged after COVID-19 first wave; streamlined state efforts helped arrest the trend, claim officials As many as 3,970 villages in Odisha were declared child marriage-free between January and the first week of July 2021. The development has coincided with second wave of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic; the state had registered a surge in Child marriages during the first wave. In 2020, only 62 villages were declared...