GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The Child Marriage Restraint Act was a legislative act passed on 28 September 1929. The act fixed the marriageable age for girls at 14 years and 18 years for boys. It is popularly known as the Sharda Act after its sponsor, Harbilas Sarda.

Detailed explanation-2: -(1) This Act may be called the Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1 [1929]. 2. [(2) It extends to the whole of India 3 [except the State of Jammu and Kashmir]; and it applies also to all citizens of India without and beyond India.]

Detailed explanation-3: -The Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929, approved by the Imperial Legislative Council of India on September 28, 1929, set the marriage age for females at 14 years and boys at 18 years. After India’s independence in 1949, it changed to 15 for females and 21 for boys.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Joshi Committee presented its report on 20 June 1929 and was passed by the Imperial Legislative Council on 28 September 1929 and became a law on 1 April 1930 extending to the whole of British India. It fixed 14 and 18 as the marriageable age for girls and boys respectively of all communities.

Detailed explanation-5: -Punishment for male adult above twenty-one years of age marrying a child.-Whoever, being a male above twenty-one years of age, contracts a child marriage shall be punishable with 7 [simple imprisonment which may extend to three months and shall also be liable to fine].