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Live Law interviewed Madhu Mehra, lawyer heading the research and training initiatives at Partners for Law in Development (PLD), a legal resource group on women s rights and social justice in India.
Excerpts from the interview on the topics of child marriage, proposal to increase age of marriage etc:
There is an increasing attention on law relating to child marriage. Could you outline the scope of the legal regime on child marriage?
There is more than one law relating to child marriage. A primary central law along with religion-based family laws and the penal laws have a bearing on child marriage.