Difference in legal marriage age for men and women based on patriarchal bias: Allahabad High Court
The question before the Court was whether the age of majority for the man would begin at 18 years or at 21 years, for the purposes of calculating limitation to annul a child marriage.
The Allahabad High Court recently observed that the difference in the legal age for marriage between men and women in India is “nothing but a vestige of patriarchy”[Sanjay Chaudhary v. Guddan @ Usha].