A Gujarat High Court judge invoked Manusmriti to support his remarks that girls used to get married at the age of 14-15 and give birth by 17 in the past while hearing the abortion plea of a minor rape survivor. This ancient legal text of Hinduism has been referred to by courts previously too
A Gujarat High Court judge, while seeking the opinion of medical experts as to whether abortion can be performed on a seven-month-pregnant minor rape survivor, asked her lawyer to read the highly contentious ancient book, Manusmriti, to understand how women used to get married early back in the day.
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