Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 481 · Decided 14 October 1999
Dwarika Prasad Satpathy v. Bidyut Prava Dixit and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 481 · [1999] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 684
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1082/1999
- Decided
- 14 October 1999
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, M.B. SHAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 494; CrPC Section 125; Evidence Act Section 102, 103, 50, 114, 112
Headnote
Criminal Procedure Code, ·1973: Section 125--Marriage--Proof-Standard of-Husband contended that C the marriage was perf onned under duress at knifepoint and, therefore, it was an invalid marriage-Held: The standard of proof of marriage in a proceed­ ing under S.125 is not as strict as is fallowed it is not necessary to establish that it is complete as per the relevant rites-Hence, High Court rightly held that considering the standard of proof under S.125 the wife D had proved the marriage-Evidence Act, 1872, Ss. 102 and 103-Penal Code, 1860, S.494. Section
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