Consider the following statements The Special Marriage Act 1954 prescribes 18 years as the minimum a...........

Explanation:

• The Special Marriage Act, 1954 prescribes 18 years and the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 prescribes 21 years as the minimum age of consent for marriage for women and men respectively. Hence, statement 1 is not correct.
• India is a state party to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1979.
• The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which monitors the implementation of the Convention, calls for the abolition of laws that assume women have a different physical or intellectual rate of growth than men.

Hence only statement 2nd is correct.