While pronouncing judgment on a petition, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday pronounced that the marriage between first cousins is illegal.

“The submission in the present petition that as and when she (the girl) attains the age of 18 years, they will perform marriage is also per se illegal,” the judge said while hearing the petition. The promulgation from the court came after a 21-year-old man moved the high court against state of Punjab seeking anticipatory bail in a case registered under Sections 363 (kidnapping), 366A (procuration of minor girl) of the IPC at police station Khanna City-2 in Ludhiana district on August 18.

While opposing the bail plea, the state counsel argued that the girl was a minor and her parents had lodged the FIR as she and the man were first cousins and their fathers were brothers.

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