A Hindu male of 28 years of age adopts a female child of 13 years of age. The adoption is

Section 11(iii) of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 requires that where a male adopts a female, "the adoptive father is at least twenty-one years older than the person to be adopted". Here the difference is only 15 years.

Section 5(1) provides that an adoption made in contravention of the Act's conditions "shall be void". A void adoption creates no rights at all, so it is not merely voidable, and the Act does not use the word "illegal" for it.