What the law says about gauri's parents

I have been reading the entire text of the child marriage protection act in detail. There are so many comments I have to make about so many things.

I have limited time to make them all, but the first one I want to make is this.

Gauri's obsession with 'legality/kanoonan' is because in her own mind she is under the impression that the first marriage to jagya was voided by a mahapanchayat on grounds of samajik and dharmik (social and religious grounds) -- so somewhere along the way she believed that if she had the backing of the kanoon at that time, then this marriage would have stuck and not come unglued.

So, this time the second marriage she made sure she was kanoonan patni and the legal aspect was handled so that no mahapanchayat could annul it again.

The thing she doesnt know is that the first time around also the kanoon would not have supported her.

The law while holding all child marriages are illegal - makes a distinction between child marriage which is 'genuine' in the sense that parents real intention is to get the child married-- documented through assets given to the girl by her parents as dahej

vs.

child marriage which is 'selling the girl' -- documented by parents who sell the girl in exchange for money -- and do not provide any assets to the girl at all (in terms of any saris, clothes, jewellery etc.)

While the first type of marriage is anyway illegal - and the male parent faces two years imprisonment and 2 lakhs fine (mother of the girl or boy will not be imprisoned - only the father/uncle of the girl and the boy who arranges the marriage)

the second type of marriage falls under yet another law - child prostitution act/sex trafficing act.
Parents of girl who sell a minor girl in exchange for money from the groom are prosecuted as pimps for prostituting their daughter. The crime is more serious and leads to additional years of imprisonment and more penalty to be decided upon by the judge.

So gauri would not have had the support of the kanoon even at that time (which she believes is the only reason her marriage to jagya as a child did not stick - and which is why she waves the certificate to the villagers saying - I dont care for your samajik norms, I have legal support this time).

Gauri who gives no responsibility to her parents for selling her, and only blames dadisa for paying money to her parents saying "us dokri ney hamare garibi ka faayda uthaya" would be well advised to see what the law says about her own parents.

More later...

Excellent research. I can't wait to read what other salient points you unearth.

Hate to admit this because I never really feel an iota of sympathy for Gauri before, but the Bechari has to deal with ultimate betrayal by her parents. No wonder she seems unfazed by Jagya's blatant lies.

👏👏👏 Wow Hats off to you for the awesome post, I really applaud you for your thorough research, are you by any chance a Lawyer or a student of Law? Just curious😃

Good work on the research.

Notwithstanding the bane of child marriages.

G made the SAME mistake that her parents made when she was a kid. The village panchayat was absolutely correct in annulling the G and J marriage b/c it would have been an unjust towards Anandi.

Dadisa was wrong, 100% but G's parents were exponentially wrong, frankly G should be holding a grudge against her mom and dad for trying to get her married to an already married boy.

As many people have said in this forum, ultimately there are other poor rural villagers who even in the storyline presented (regarding J's 2nd marriage) who said they would rather bear the burden of a single female child than sentence her to a fate of being someone's 2nd wife.

G's parents chose otherwise and frankly they have their own self to blame for being ostracized by their community and village. People in the rural areas suffer the helplessness of not having enough finances to support the family but not everyone resorts to marrying their daughter off to an already married boy (without thinking what the consequences to someone else daughter's would be).

But what does she do: she MAKES THE SAME MISTAKE AS AN ADULT.

Her parents did ZERO research to confirm Dadisa's claims about boy Jagya, his first beendni, on the contrary they rushed Dadisa into accepting an earlier date.

G DID the SAME EXACT THING. No asking a lawyer. No confirming legalities just take the "word" of the man who LIED to you for 5 years because he sat in the rain for a few hours. WOW.

Being stupid in love is one thing, but being brain dead, come on!

In G's case, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. So sad, because G is pretty, smart, and she should have fallen for a REAL modern educated guy like the dude her bade papa introduced her too.

What's the point of all the education if you are going to make the same uneducated, ill-informed decisions that your parents make!

Hi tinoo, thanks for the information.. Now i can see many more legal angles which i was not aware of.
In this show, we have seen many offenders of law .

Gehna's parents too sold away their daughter for money to DS.
Phooli's parents sold away Phooli for natha pratha for money issues
Gauri's parents did it too.
There should be a way the CVs show that , this is can not only lead to turmoils but also a crime.
A serious one !

To top that, Gehna was intially raped in marriage.Went through domestic abuse.
its scary to remember those days wheh DS was such a monster even Basant .

Nicely written... Good research about the judicial system!!... but what about infidelity?... why doesn't Gauri consider the sin/crime that she committed in the form of marrying an already married name thus helping him commit infidelity/ adultery!!

I would have loved to see a track where Anandi asks for justice and sends Jagat and Gauri behind bars...by now due to trps of the pati, patni, aur woh stuff I m not gonna see my wish being fulfilled... I want Anandi to fall in love with a nice, caring, and loyal guy... I know its impossible as its an indian show and no matter how bad the guy is the wife will return back to him at the end of the day!!... WHICH SUCKS!!

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