Minimum age for marriage for a girl is: (LQ)
(The minimum age for marriage for Girls is 18 years and for Boys is 21 years (child marriage restraint Act, 1978).
Importance of various ages:-
a. 10 yrs- Kidnapping. 14 yrs- Employment (cannot work).
b. 15 yrs- rape with own wife.
c. 16 yrs- rape with any woman (Sec. 375 IPC).
d. 18 yrs- attains majority, Juvenile (<18 yrs, Juvenile Justice Act, 1986), Prostitution (Sec. 366A).
e. 21 yrs- majority if under guardianship of court, prostitution by females imported into India.)