A Hindu male having a Hindu wife, changed his religion and adopts Islam in 2012. He marries again to a…
Conversion to Islam does not dissolve the subsisting Hindu marriage, so the second marriage is "Void as his second marriage amounts to bigamy" (Sarla Mudgal v. Union of…
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A Hindu male having a Hindu wife, changed his religion and adopts Islam in 2012. He marries again to a Muslim girl in 2013. In 2014, his Hindu wife died. His second marriage is:
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Conversion to Islam does not dissolve the subsisting Hindu marriage, so the second marriage is "Void as his second marriage amounts to bigamy" (Sarla Mudgal v. Union of India). The later death of the first wife does not validate the already void second marriage.
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