2.7 Offences Relating to Marriage (the Criminal Code, 2074)

Child marriage: marrying or arranging the marriage of a person below 20 — the marrying parties of age and the arrangers, guardians, priests and abettors punishable; the Supreme Court's zero-tolerance line (the Santosh Kumar Yadav line, 2080, on child marriage's overlap with statutory rape — the criminal detail in your Criminal Law readings); Bigamy/polygamy: marrying again while a spouse lives — imprisonment plus the second marriage void; the classical debate on the "spouse unheard-of for seven years" defence; Incest marriage/prohibited-degrees marriage: void plus criminal; Forced and fraudulent marriage: coercion, kidnap or identity-fraud marriage — criminal, and voidable/void per the civil rules; Jari's afterlife: the old Ain's adultery-custom (the "jari" man's fine-and-liability regime — husband-centred property logic) is abolished; adultery's remaining gendered provision was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2021 as unconstitutional — the modern replacement for marital betrayal is the civil divorce ground (Unit 4) and the Domestic Violence Act 2066's protection orders.