Which State In India Has The Highest ‘Child Marriage’ Complaints

January 15, 2020

According to ‘The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006’, any marriage where either of the contracting party is a child at the time of the marriage is voidable at the option of the contracting parties if they approach the court within two years of attaining their majority.

As per National Crime Records Bureau reports, the Karnataka State became top on “child marriage cases reported” list with 65 reported cases.

The Assam and Tamil Nadu came in 2^nd and 3^rd spots with 58 and 55 child marriage reports respectively.

The total number of child marriage cases reported during the last five years are as follows;

State-wise number of child marriage cases reported during the last five years.

Sl. No.	State/UT	Number of Cases registered during the year
Sl. No.	State/UT	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
1	Andhra Pradesh	16	16	15	19	15
2	Arunachal Pradesh	0	0	0	0	0
3	Assam	1	4	14	23	58
4	Bihar	1	10	0	0	17
5	Chhattisgarh	1	2	6	8	1
6	Goa	0	0	0	0	0
7	Gujarat	12	16	9	12	6
8	Haryana	17	15	14	14	18
9	Himachal Pradesh	2	4	1	0	5
10	Jammu & Kashmir	0	0	0	0	0
11	Jharkhand	1	1	1	4	1
12	Karnataka	26	44	35	51	65
13	Kerala	11	19	13	8	15
14	Madhya Pradesh	6	15	9	9	5
15	Maharashtra	16	14	24	16	20
16	Manipur	0	0	0	0	0
17	Meghalaya	0	0	0	0	0
18	Mizoram	0	0	0	0	0
19	Nagaland	0	0	0	0	0
20	Odisha	0	0	1	15	17
21	Punjab	0	2	5	8	8
22	Rajasthan	5	5	6	12	6
23	Sikkim	0	0	0	0	0
24	Tamil Nadu	56	47	77	55	55
25	Telangana		13	15	19	25
26	Tripura	1	1	2	1	1
27	Uttar Pradesh	5	10	4	3	4
28	Uttarakhand	0	0	1	1	1
29	West Bengal	43	37	40	41	49
30	A & N Islands	0	0	1	1	0
31	Chandigarh	0	0	0	0	2
32	D&N Haveli	0	0	0	0	0
33	Daman & Diu	0	0	0	0	0
34	Delhi UT	1	2	0	1	1
35	Lakshadweep	0	0	0	0	0
36	Puducherry	1	3	0	5	0
	Total	222	280	293	326	395

The Minister of Women and Child Development, Smriti Zubin Irani gave the above information in the Rajya Sabha on 28^th November.

State-wise number of child marriage cases reported during the last five years.

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