The woman and the couple's five-month-old little girl have been in jail for the past fortnight.
She was captured after the youngster's mom held up a policy grievance. She has been charged under the stringent kid sex misuse act.
The woman says their relationship is consensual and furthermore challenges the case that her significant other is underage.
In spite of the fact that the period of assent for sex in India for all sexual orientations is 18, the legitimate age for marriage is 18 years for ladies and 21 years for men.
So for this situation, police have additionally charged the lady under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act.
The BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi says it's an uncommon situation where a lady has been captured for wedding an underage man. There are numerous cases where young fellows in consensual connections have been captured after protestations from the guardians of young ladies who are under 18 years old.
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The adolescent's mom enrolled an objection with the police in December a year ago blaming the lady and her family for capturing her child and driving him into marriage, a Mumbai police official revealed to BBC Hindi.
He said they completed the capture after an intensive request and taking lawful counsel in light of the fact that the blamed was a lady.
In the grievance, the mother likewise said that her child had been in contact with the lady for a long time and that she had compromised to kill herself on the off chance that he quit meeting her.
The lady has recorded a safeguard appeal to where she has guaranteed that her better half is more than 18 and that their relationship is consensual, as per Indian media reports.
She says that he has two sisters matured 20 and 18 so it's impractical for him to be 17 years and eight months old.
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