If the POCSO Act and the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act are mechanically applied, the minor children will have “to face cruelty of the society” for no fault of their own, the Court said.
A division bench of Justices PB Bajanthri and Ramesh Chand Malviya dismissed a plea filed by a man who sought custody of his wife aged less than 17 years
The Patna High Court on Tuesday refused to hand over the custody of a minor girl to her husband and ordered that she would continue to remain at a State Girls Care Home.