Consent In Child Marriage: Valid Consent Or Legal Fiction

Ms. Mehjabin Ansari, LLM (Family Law) AIALS, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh ABSTRACT Child marriage is a phenomenon that persists across cultures, geographies, and legal traditions, yet it sits in irreconcilable tension with the foundational principle of free and informed consent. In Indian law, the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 renders child marriages voidable rather than void ab initio, thereby implicitly recognising a species of consent that contract law categorically...