Delhi High Court| Inability of one spouse to prove ‘saptapadi’ ritual in second marriage at summon stage not a loophole to evade bigamy charges
The law cannot be powerless to stop, punish or limit clandestine marriages and unions when the first wife or husband are alive and the valid marriage subsists, as now a spouse performing a second clandestine marriage would not also be liable to punishment for adultery as it is no more an offence.