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Two marriages are governed by the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and are solemnized with the required rites.…

Section 82(1) requires a subsequent marriage that is void because a spouse from the first marriage is still living. The question supplies due solemnization and a subsisting…

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Two marriages are governed by the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and are solemnized with the required rites. The first marriage is valid and subsisting, the first spouse is alive, and no statutory exception applies. For the purposes of section 82(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, what is the legal status of the second marriage?

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Section 82(1) requires a subsequent marriage that is void because a spouse from the first marriage is still living. The question supplies due solemnization and a subsisting first marriage, and excludes the statutory exceptions.

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Option A

A living spouse from a subsisting marriage bars the second marriage in the stated circumstances.

Option B

The living-spouse bar makes the second marriage void under the Hindu Marriage Act.

Option C

The second marriage is void because it took place while a valid first marriage subsisted and the first spouse was alive.

Option D

Registration does not cure the living-spouse bar.

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