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The Supreme Court, in a recent judgment, held that the charge under the offence of bigamy, punishable under Section 494 of the Indian Penal Code, can be framed only against the spouse to the second marriage. By the mere presence of friends and relatives in the second marriage, it cannot be held that they had the common intention to commit …

Second Spouse Or Their Family Can't Be Prosecuted For Bigamy Under Section 494 IPC: Karnataka High Court

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, …

The Punjab & Haryana High Court has said that living together with another woman, without dissolving the marriage from earlier spouse may amount to offence of bigamy under Sections 494, 495 of the IPC.Justice Kuldeep Tiwari said, ".without obtaining any valid decree of divorce from his earlier spouse and during subsistence of his earlier marriage, the petitioner No.2 is living …

The Marriage Law expressly "prohibits bigamy". The so-called bigamy refers to the act of those who have a spouse and get married again, or who marry someone whom they know has a spouse. There are two forms of bigamy: the act of those who have a spouse or know that another person has a spouse and register a marriage with …

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