Delhi High Court has refused to quash a POCSO case against a man whose wife was 16 years and three months old when they had their nikah. Justice Sanjeev Narula dismissed the couple's petition on September 23 and said a marriage under Muslim personal law cannot give a person protection from the child protection law.
The case began in May 2026 when the wife, about eight months pregnant, went to a government hospital for treatment. Her age came to the notice of authorities there. Police checked her school record, which showed her date of birth as September 19, 2008, and registered an FIR at Daryaganj police station under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the POCSO Act.
