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Child means a person
who, if a male, has not completed twenty one year of
age, and if a female, has not completed eighteen years
of age. Being a male above eighteen years of age and
below twenty one, contract of marriage shall be punishable
with simple imprisonment which may extend to fifteen
days, or with fine which may extend to one thousand
rupees, or with both. Parents or guardian or in any
other capacity, lawful or unlawful, who does any act
to promote the marriage or permits it to be solemnised
or negligently fials to prevent it from being solemnised,
shall be punishable with simple imprisonment which may
extend to three moths and shall also be liable to fine.
The Act do not provide punishment to the woman. |
