Granting anticipatory bail to certain accused in separate matters booked under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 r/w the POCSO Act, the Gauhati High Court observed on Monday that these are not matters that require custodial interrogation.

“If marriage is taking place in violation of law, the law will take its own course. These cases have been happening since time immemorial... At this moment, this court thinks that these are not matters for custodial interrogation. We will ask them to appear and record their statements. These are not NDPS or smuggling or stolen property cases,” the bench of Justice Suman Shyam observed.