Recently, Parliament passed the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021 which increased the minimum legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years. The Bill was introduced in the lower house on the pretext of gender parity, by providing equality to women in matrimony after 75 years so that they come at par with men, whose minimum legal age of marriage is 21 years. The government advocated that as women will be in a better position to decide for themselves, the Bill will try to eliminate early pregnancies and also reduce infant and maternal mortality rates and other health complications in case of child pregnancy.