Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1219 · Decided 7 November 2019
Hardev Singh v. Harpreet Kaur & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1219 · [2019] 14 S.C.R. 120
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1331/2013
- Decided
- 7 November 2019
- Bench
- MOHAN M. SHANTANAGOUDAR, ANIRUDDHA BOSE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 482
Headnote
Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 - s.9 - Interpretation of - High Court directed registration of FIR for criminal offence u/ s. 9 of the Act, 2006 against the appellant - It was alleged that appellant was only 17 years, when he married respondent no.1 - disputed that respondent no.1 (wife of the appellant) was a major at the time of marriage - Held: A literal interpretation of ss.2(a), 2(b) and 9 would mean that if a male aged between the years of eighteen and twenty-one contracts marriage with a female above eighteen years of age, female
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