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I was reading the history of the child marriage act.
The child marriage act was actually first passed in 1929 by the Mysore High Court in the British era.
The British were against child marriages.
The 1929 act had two aspects
1. Prevention of child marriages
2. Prosecution of offenders who try to arrange child marriages.
This 1929 law went on until 1950 when the Indian constitution was framed, and the Indian constitution adopted it in 1950 as part of the legal framework of Independent India.
From 1950-2006, this law was intact and not touched since the british era (the wording or the terms I mean).
In 2006, the supreme court of India introduced an amendment and provided third aspect of the law which was added on.
This is
3. Protection of victims of child marriage act -
This is what gives anandi protection now from being called illegal wife and which gives her right to file for alimony from husband and in-laws.
I could not find what case triggered off this amendment in 2006.
But it is evident that there must have been several slimebags like Jagya who at the age of 28, 30, 32, 34 just used to walk away from the marriages stating that "oh this is illegal because we were married at an underage when we were not adults"... after using first wife for physical and other needs using the friendship brand sindoor argument... thereby avoiding responsibility for children born out of the marriage as well as future of discarded wife. So Jagya is not a unique case where this happened.
Very sad commentary on the state of affairs in this country then from 1950-2006 where there was no protection of victims of child marriage. I wonder what women like anandi did in that era. Probably cast away like pariahs.
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