Section 17 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 makes bigamy a penal offence under:

Section 17 of the Hindu Marriage Act applies IPC sections 494 and 495 to a bigamous Hindu marriage within its terms. Section 494 concerns marrying while a husband or wife is living, and section 495 concerns concealment of that former marriage. Section 17 has not been amended; these two offences are now contained in section 82 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.