HETA, India – At the entrance to this village in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand, a large pond glistened under the bright autumn sun. Yellow and blue lilies surrounded it. A tailor was stitching clothes outside his shop while a few boys nearby were playing carrom on the lid of a rusted oil barrel. It was a tranquil, rustic setting – a candidate for a landscape painting, it seemed. But it...
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Registration of Marriages to be made compulsory
-The Hindu The government will amend the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, to include registration of Marriages under the purview of this law. The amendment bill to be introduced in Parliament during this session. This will provide legal protection to couples, especially in cases of inter-religious matrimony. The Union Cabinet on Thursday also approved amendment to the Anand Marriage Act, 1909, to provide for registration of Marriages of Sikhs that...
More »Religion may be taken out of Marriage registration by Mahendra Kumar Singh
The Union Cabinet is likely to consider a proposal that seeks to do away with the requirement to disclose one's religious affiliation for registration of Marriages as well as the demand of Sikh bodies that their Marriages be registered under a separate law. The move has been prompted by the consideration to help those opting for inter-faith Marriages, along with the need to make registration of Marriages a simpler affair. It is...
More »Life imprisonment is ground to grant divorce: Karnataka high court by P Vasanth Kumar
If you're sentenced to life imprisonment, it's possible you can't remain married. Karnataka high court has rejected the miscellaneous first appeal (MFA) filed by a husband serving a life sentence in a murder case. "When the appellant is convicted for life, even the grounds of desertion have to be taken into account legally because he cannot live with the wife and give her conjugal happiness. For the rest of her life,...
More »Child Marriages least likely in Delhi by Kounteya Sinha
Women in Delhi are least likely to get married before reaching the age of 18 while those in Jharkhand are most likely. India's Capital recorded the lowest percentage of women (0.5%) who got married before 18 years of age in 2010 followed by Haryana (0.7%) and Jammu & Kashmir (0.9%), according to the Registrar General of India's latest Sample Registration System (SRS) survey, submitted to the Union health ministry on Saturday. Jharkhand...
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