The Muslim Leagues women wing has opposed the proposed move to hike the legal marriageable age of women from 18 to 21 years.
The secretary of Indian Union Women League, PK Noorbana Rasheed has written a letter to PM Modi, urging him against taking a hasty decision on the important social issue.
The letter read that delaying the age of marriage will give way to live-in relationships and illegitimate relations.
She said, "When many developing countries had brought down the legal age of marriage from 21 to 18 years considering the biological and social needs, it is not proper for India to take a hasty decision in favour of raising womens legal age for marriage."
She further added, "Instead of implementing the Prohibition of Child Marriages Act 2006 in letter and spirit, attempts to raise the marriageable age of women was unfair."
