PIL Filed In Delhi HC Challenging Difference In Minimum Age For Marriage For Men and Women [Read Petition]

A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Delhi High Court by Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay seeking abolition of different minimum age for marriage for men and women. The petitioner calls the distinction 'unscientific' and a patriarchal stereotype. According to the Petitioner, the following statutory provisions are responsible for this discriminatory bar: a. Section 60(1) of...