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.”
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Victim attaining majority during trial not entitled to “Child-Specific” safeguards under Section 33(2) of POCSO Act: Rajasthan High Court
“The law… does not permit a retrospective resurrection of childhood once the individual steps into legal adulthood; and to permit otherwise would be to dilute the doctrinal rigour of age-based legal classifications and introduce subjectivity into a domain that demands exactitude.”