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- A Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievance, Law and Justice has recommended reducing the age for contesting Lok Sabha and Assembly elections to 18 years.
- It is the minimum age of voting in India.
- It said that the viewpoint for reducing the age was reinforced by a vast amount of evidence, such as global practices, the increasing political consciousness among young people, and the advantages of youth representation.
- However, this view was contested by the Election Commission of India.
- It has found that it is unrealistic to expect 18-year-olds to possess the necessary experience and maturity for these responsibilities.
- India’s age of consent for sex is set at 18 years under the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013, regardless of gender.
- In 1892, the marital rape and subsequent death of a 10-year-old girl, Phulmoni Dasi, caused the age of consent to be raised from 10 to 12 years.
- In 1949, it was raised to 16 years after agitation from women’s groups about the adverse effect of early pregnancy.
- The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, of 2013 increased the legally permissible age for sexual consent from 16 to 18.
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