The law is that no male can marry below the age of 21 years and no female can marry below the age of 18…

The marriage subsists as valid unless annulled; breach of the age condition does not by itself make a Hindu marriage void. Section 11 of the Hindu Marriage Act does not include the age condition among grounds of nullity. Under Section 3 of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, the marriage is voidable at the option of the party who was a child: here, the boy, not the girl.