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Under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, a marriage is voidable if the respondent at the time of marriage was:

Section 12(1)(d) of the Hindu Marriage Act covers a respondent pregnant at marriage by "some person other than the petitioner", subject to Section 12(2)(b). Venereal disease…

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Under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, a marriage is voidable if the respondent at the time of marriage was:

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Section 12(1)(d) of the Hindu Marriage Act covers a respondent pregnant at marriage by "some person other than the petitioner", subject to Section 12(2)(b). Venereal disease itself is a divorce ground under Section 13(1)(v), rather than this pregnancy ground, and a previous divorce or under-age marriage does not itself trigger Section 12.

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