Karnataka HC: ‘Happily Ever After’ No Excuse to Validate Child Marriage; Childhood Cannot be Surrendered
“The law protects childhood, so that it may blossom into informed adulthood. This Court will not permit this protection to be diminished.”
Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006
POCSO cases cannot be quashed in consensual adolescent relationships unless Centre clarifies its stand: Bombay HC
“If the Courts started accepting that a major boy of age 25 years on-wards took away the girl who was a minor and then came with the defence of adolescent love, then it would not be a good sign from the legal point of view, because particular Acts were legislated with certain aims and objects.”