Supreme Court will decide the age of marriage of Muslim girls New Delhi.  The Supreme Court will consider the age of marriage of Muslim girls.  Muslim law permits marriage after a girl attains vanavastha i.e. 15 years of age, while the legal age of marriage for girls under both the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 and the Special Marriage Act, 1954 is 18 years for girls and 18 years for boys,  is 21 years old.  The apex court, in its 2018 judgment in the case of Hatia Akhila and Safin Jahan, had held that attaining puberty is a condition for a valid Muslim marriage.  This is legal 24) The matter arose after the High Court declared the marriage of a 16-year-old girl illegal The matter arose after a decision of the Allahabad High Court.  The High Court declared the marriage of a 16-year-old Muslim girl illegal and sent her to Nari Niketan.  The girl had married of her own free will, after which her father filed a case of kidnapping and abduction against the boy.  A bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and Justice Bela M Trivedi asked advocate Dushyant Parashar, appearing for Sadki, to file an affidavit.  Yes

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