The Karnataka High Court has made it clear that it is only the husband or wife who marries for the second time during the subsistence of an earlier marriage and the life time of the earlier spouse, who can be prosecuted under Section 494 of the Indian Penal Code. On a perusal of Section 494 IPC, the bench said- whoever, …
MUMBAI: A woman cannot be prosecuted for abetment to bigamy merely on the ground that she is the second wife of a man facing bigamy charges, the Bombay high court has said in a recent ruling as it cancelled the charges against a Vikroli resident and her father. Mumbai: Justice Makarand Karnik of the Bombay high court delivered the ruling …
The Supreme Court has sought Centre’s response to a PIL seeking to make bigamy as an offence in all religions. Today, after five years, the five-judge bench comprising Justices Indira Banerjee, Hemant Gupta, Surya Kant, MM Sundresh and Sudhanshu Dhulia agreed to take up adjudication of other alleged discriminatory practices against Muslim women mentioned on a PIL filed by advocate …
The Gauhati High Court has observed that in the Hindu religion, there is no concept of Bigamy and therefore, a second wife is not entitled to a family pension in the existence of the first wife.The bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar Medhi observed thus in a case wherein Petitioner had moved the Court seeking family pension claiming herself to be …
