Under the second proviso to Section 25(a) of the Special Marriage Act, 1954, proceedings must be…

For the coercion or fraud ground in section 25(iii), clause (a) of the second proviso bars a decree if "proceedings have not been instituted within one year after the coercion had ceased or, as the case may be, the fraud had been discovered". The period runs from that point, not from the date of the marriage as on the pregnancy ground.