In all scenarios, the girls being minors were found to have got married to men above 21 years of age, out of their own free will. The larger bench went to the minutest detail to conclude that the object behind enacting the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act was to curb the menace of the prevalent child marriages. Court noted that indeed such marriages were illegal for several sociological and seemingly moral reasons. However, Court was dissatisfied that all the relevant laws contradict their illegalising clause by turning the disputed marriages voidable other than void ab initio.