The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a response from the Centre on a plea seeking transfer of two petitions from the Delhi High Court and Rajasthan High Court pertaining to the matter of uniform minimum age of marriage for men and women.

Senior advocate Geeta Luthra, representing the petitioner Ashwini Upadhyay, submitted before a bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde that identical pleas are pending in the two high courts. Luthra argued that the top court should decide this matter, and the transfer of petitions will also avoid multiplicity of litigations and conflicting views. Upadhyay had moved the top court seeking transfer of the pleas in October last year.