'X' a Hindu aged 28 years marries 'Y' aged 25 years according to Hindu rites. It turns out that at the…

Section 12(1)(d) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 makes a marriage voidable where "the respondent was at the time of the marriage pregnant by some person other than the petitioner". The petition must meet the conditions of section 12(2)(b): the petitioner was ignorant of the fact, filed within one year, and had no marital intercourse after discovering it. Pregnancy is not a ground for a void marriage under section 11.