It is unfortunate that an intelligent girl who desires to pursue medicine is forced to get married at a minor age, the Bombay High Court observed today.The court was hearing a petition for the custody of a teenager, filed by her mother Zakia Begum of Aurangabad. The court granted the custody after the parents undertook that they would not marry off the girl till she turns 18.
Zakia’s daughter, 14, was to marry last December, but her uncle filed a complaint with the police against a violation of the Child Marriage Restriction Act (now replaced by Prohibition of Child Marriage Act or PCMA).
A division Bench of Justice D B Bhosale and Justice A R Joshi today interviewed the girl in their chamber where she said she did not wish to get married since she wanted to pursue her education and desired to study medicine.“We found her to be very intelligent and it is very unfortunate that the parents wanted to marry her off,” Justice Bhosale said.
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