law: The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006
  3. Child marriages to
  
  be voidable at the option of contracting party being a child. -
  1.  
  
    Every
  
  child marriage, whether solemnised before or after the commencement of this
  
  Act, shall be voidable at the option of the contracting party who was a child
  
  at the time of the marriage: Provided that a petition for annulling a child
  
  marriage by a decree of nullity may be filed in the district court only by a
  
  contracting party to the marriage who was a child at the time of the marriage.
  2.  
  
    If
  
  at the time of filing a petition, the petitioner is a minor, the petition may
  
  be filed through his or her guardian or next friend along with the Child
  
  Marriage Prohibition Officer.
  3.  
  
    The
  
  petition under this section may be filed at any time but before the child
  
  filing the petition completes two years of attaining majority.
  4.  
  
  
  
    While
  
  granting a decree of nullity under this section, the district court shall make
  
  an order directing both the parties to the marriage and their parents or their
  
  guardians to return to the other party, his or her parents or guardian, as the
  
  case may be, the money, valuables, ornaments and other gifts received on the
  
  occasion of the marriage by them from the other side, or an amount equal to the
  
  value of such valuables, ornaments, other gifts and money:Provided that no
  
  order under this section shall be passed unless the concerned parties have been
  
  given notices to appear before the district court and show cause why such order
  
  should not be passed.