At an event to celebrate the International Day of Girl Child, Chief Minsiter AshokGehlotsaid the government would request the governor to send back the Bill to amend the Rajasthan Compulsory Marriage Act 2009 for a review by experts.
A row had broken out after civil Society and rights activists alleged that the amendment encouraged child marriage and accused the government of promoting it.
Breaking his silence over the Bill, Gehlot in his address at the event, Hoslon Ki Udaan, clarified, The Supreme Court had given an order to register all marriages to safeguard the legal rights of children born out of wedlock and widows.
The Rajasthan Compulsory Registration of Marriages (Amendment) Bill, 2021 passed by the assembly had opened a can of worms after legal experts and activists claimed that it promoted child marriage by giving it validation.
Although a child marriage is voidable, it is also a punishable as well as a nonbailable offence against those who solemise it.