K. Surendran Mohan, J.

1. The complaint of the petitioners is regarding the refusal of the respondent to register their marriage under the Kerala Registration of Marriages (Common) Rules, 2008 the Rules for short). The petitioners are husband and wife. Their marriage was solemnised in the customary manner, on 4.9.2003 at Juma Masjid, Varod, Ottapalam. They have been residing together as husband and wife ever since. They have a boy child named Razik, who is now three years of age. The marriage of the petitioners was m arranged one. The petitioners submitted an application for the registration of their marriage, since they are planning to go abroad. However the respondent declined to register their marriage. Ext.P1 is the application submitted by them for the said purpose. The reason for refusing to register their marriage is that, one of the petitioners, the second petitioner herein, had not attained majority at the time of solemnisation of the marriage. As stated above, the marriage was in the year 2003. On 8.3.2004, the second petitioner had attained majority. Therefore, it is contended that there is no point in refusing to register the marriage at this length of time, espe