NEW DELHI: Can sexual intercourse between a man and his minor wife be termed an offence? "Child marriage is not a good social practice but we cannot forget that that there are millions of such marriages taking place in the country. The court was hearing a PIL filed by an NGO seeking direction for fixing the age of consent of a wife at 18 years for having sex with her husband. The truth is that a girl under 15 is still a child, married or not. The NGO submitted that this statutory exception to rape was violative of right to life and personal liberty of girl child and was contrary to POCSO.

Source: Times of India August 10, 2017 00:50 UTC