Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 542 · Decided 23 September 2004
Kunti Devi v. Som Raj and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 542 · [2004] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 632
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1066/2004
- Decided
- 23 September 2004
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, C.K. THAKKER (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Leave Granted & Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 494; CrPC Section 561, 482; CPC; Hindu Marriage Act Section 9, 13, 28
Headnote
Ranbir Penal Code, 1989 : Section 494 r/w Section 109-Bigamy-Second marriage during subsistence of a valid marriage-District Court passed a decree for dissolution of marriage on 9.3.1999-Appeal filed on 8.12.1999-High Court passed an order on 24.11.2000 that the husband shall not remarry till plea in appeal that he remarried after decree of divorce was passed but before the order of stay-Subsequently, decree of divorce set aside by the High Court-Wife filed a complaint alleging that the husband had contracted a second marriage during the subsistence of a valid marriage-High Court
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