Allahabad High Court Says Hindu Marriage Cannot Be Proven by Mere Certificate of Arya Samaj or Registrar but Must Show Saptapadi or Other Rites and Customs
The court also held that the one claiming the factum of marriage must produce evidence or witnesses showing that Saptapadi and other rites and customs of Hindu marriage under Section 7 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, were performed.
The Allahabad High Court recently said that a marriage certificate issued by Arya Samaj Mandir or the Registrar of Hindu Marriages does not by itself prove marriage between parties. The court also held that the one claiming the factum of marriage must produce evidence or witnesses showing that Saptapadi and other rites and customs of Hindu marriage under Section 7 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, were performed. The court observed while hearing a case where the appellant was a minor when she was taken to the respondent, who was a "Guru" giving religious discourses at his residence in Lucknow. The appellant had filed a suit under Section 12 of the Hindu Marriage Act to declare her marriage void as she had not consented to the same. Allahabad High Court Says ‘POCSO Act Being Misused in Cases Involving Consensual Romantic Relationships Between Teenagers’.
HC on Hindu Marriage
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