Under Muslim Law, puberty is presumed at the age of

In the classical rule, puberty is presumed on completion of fifteen years when there is no evidence establishing actual puberty. This is a rebuttable personal-law presumption, not a statement that every civil purpose uses fifteen as the age of majority or that child-protection statutes permit every marriage at that age.

Current law: The puberty presumption must not be substituted for statutory marriage conditions. For persons covered by Uttarakhand’s UCC, section 4(iii) sets marriage ages of twenty-one for a man and eighteen for a woman. Separate child-protection and child-marriage statutes also require their own examination.