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A month and half after Assam government's proactive steps against child marriages drew ire of civil society which termed it a targeted action against minority community, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Union government to devise mechanism to enforce Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006.
While hearing a six year-old petition complaining that girls below 18 years of age are being married off despite child marriages being outlawed almost a century ago and a new law enacted in 2006, a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, and Justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala asked the Centre to collate data from various states on the extent of prevalence of child marriage.
