“‘Personal laws must be considered, he is allowed to have 4 wives’: Bombay HC affirms Muslim man’s right to register multiple marriages”, Opindia, October 22, 2024:
“On Tuesday, 22nd October, the Bombay High Court determined that a Muslim man may register multiple weddings under the Maharashtra Regulation of Marriage Bureaus and Registration of Marriages Act of 1998.
A division bench of Justices BP Colabawalla and Somasekhar Sundareshan had been hearing an application submitted by a couple after the Thane Municipal Corporation declined to register their marriage. The corporation contended that the marriage may only be registered once under the Act and that the couple did not furnish the documents necessary for registration.
The couple claimed that this was the Muslim man’s third marriage, this time with an Algerian woman, and that the corporation had already recognized his second marriage to a Moroccan citizen. They also claimed that they had provided all necessary documentation and were willing to submit any further documents asked by the corporation…….”
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