The Far Country (1955)

Is this a legal marriage?

A friend (who is a girl) is a New Zealand citizen and had an arranged marriage in India last year with an Indian citizen. She was with him for about 2-3 weeks before she went back to New Zealand. The guy stayed in India and she has not seen him in over a year.

It’s not the culture or social issue which is involved in this case but merely legal issue concerning the marriage between this New Zealander lady with an Indian man according to the Hindu Form of marriage. The non registration of marriage doesn’t effect the legality or the validity of the Marriage, what makes the marriage legal or valid in the eye of law is that here firstly both the parties to such Hindu Marriage under the Hindu Marriage Act,1955 should be Hindus by religion, if this lady being a foreigner was not, rather if she was a Christian & may not have even converted to Hindu religion before getting married to this Indian man by Sudhi ceremony being conducted by the Arya Samaj Mandir where a non Hindu is converted to the Hindu religion by particular Hindu ceremonies. Since you posted me direct email clarifying that in this case both the parties were Sikh by religion, hence the question of difference of religion doesn’t arise, rather they must have married according to Anand Karaj,Sikh form of marriage which is valid marriage for Sikhs & this shall also hold valid marriage under the Hindu Marriage Act,1955 (as Sikhs are included in the defination of Hindus in this Act). The question you raised regarding non registration making such marriage as illegal or void doesn’t arise, what actually you are confusing is the Supreme Court Judgment regarding compulsory registration of all marriages in India that came in October, 2007. The Supreme Court had only given instruction/direction in that Judgment that all State government of India should make laws with regard to making registration of any marriage taking place in the State compulsory irrespective of the religion of the parties, since this directives of the Supreme Courts are still not completely implemented in all the States of India & no final court ordered is passed with regard to this issue it will be wrong to hold that non-registration of marriage will make the said marriage between this lady & the Indian man as illegal or invalid or void since it is not registered yet. Considering this the best this lady should do is to move the court in India for divorce after one year of this marriage has passed & get decree of divorce thus getting herself freed from this marriage & remarry again. Sorry for any wrong information conveyed previously due to non-availability of correct information about the religion of the parties.

ANTHONY MANN’ S The Far Country (1955)

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