Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 355 · Decided 19 April 2024
Dolly Rani v. Manish Kumar Chanchal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 355 · [2024] 5 S.C.R. 510
- Case number
- TRANSFER PETITION (CIVIL) No. 2043/2023
- Decided
- 19 April 2024
- Bench
- B.V. NAGARATHNA, AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CPC Section 25; Constitution Article 142; Hindu Marriage Act Section 7, 8, 13(l)(ia)
Headnote
When the marriage ceremony had not been performed in accordance with section 7 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, whether registration of such a marriage under section 8 of the 1955 Act would confer any legitimacy to it. Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 - ss. 7 and 8 transfer petition, parties decided to resolve the dispute by filing a joint application u/Art.142 of the Constitution inter- alia seeking declaration that the marriage between the parties was not valid, consequently, the certificate issued by the Vadik Jankalyan Samiti and the marriage certificate
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