And a state high court has thrown out a law prohibiting such marriages.

That law, too, was born in part from an effort to prohibit interracial marriages.

A Hadith also prohibits marriage to a woman and her parent's sister at the same time.

The social rules prohibiting marriage between different classes are rigidly followed.

It is very hard to prohibit marriage, but for the nation where leprosy patients are on the increase, they should not marry.

Bangladeshi law prohibits marriage under 18 years of age.