Current Affairs Online Test-102

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The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006

The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2005 came into force on 1 March 2005 in India. The act forbids child marriages in India. It also protects and provides assistance to the victims of child marriages.

In October 2021, the Supreme Court of India gave a landmark judgement criminalising sex with a child bride, hence removing an exception in India’s criminal jurisprudence which had until then viewed the consummation of marriage with minor wife as legal.

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Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021

The amendment was introduced in the Lok Sabha to raise the marriageable age for women from 18 to 21 years. In December 2021, Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Smriti Irani referred the proposed bill to a parliamentary standing committee for detailed scrutiny. This bill will override all the existing laws after being passed.

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The Government of India, introduced the bill by considering the data of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) and recommendations made by the Jaya Jaitly committee to bring uniformity in marriageable age of women at par with men.