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Thursday, April 25

Punishment for bigamy under Foreign Marriage Act, 1969


Any person, whose marriage has been solemnized under this Act, contracts any other marriage in India during the subsistence of his earlier marriage, shall be subject to punishment provided in section 494 and section 495 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860

 

Further the second marriage shall be void.

 

The above provision shall apply to any such offence committed by any citizen of India without and beyond India.

 

 

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