1st wife file petition for null/void of husband 2nd marriage

Under the marriage laws in India, Bigamy is said to be an offence if the first husband or wife is still alive. In a case, where the husband or the wife is alive then, the second marriage contracted by a person is not legal and does not hold any validity in the eyes of law, i.e, it is termed to be a void marriage. Second wife do not have any legal rights on husbands property. 

Thanks for the reply sir. Request you to help with the query, whether 1st wife entitled to file a petition for declaring her husband's 2nd marriage as null and void ?  Who are eligible parties for filing petition of null void of the 2nd marriage of the husband ?
 

Bigamay itself considered as crime under indian penal code u/s Section 494 in The Indian Penal Code

494. Marrying again during lifetime of husband or wife.—Whoever, having a husband or wife living, marries in any case in which such marriage is void by reason of its taking place during the life of such husband or wife, shall be punished with imprisonment of either descripttion for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.  So as in your case both the wives are entiled to file Bigamy against the husband and if the court decleres second marriage as null & void then also the bigamy case will remain the same.

Thanks for the reply Arpit sir. Request you to help with the query, whether 1st wife entitled to file a petition for declaring her husband's 2nd marriage as null and void ?  Who are eligible parties for filing petition of null void of the 2nd marriage of the husband ?

1.) If a spouse suppressed his or her first marriage which is still subsisting at the time of second marriage, then the aggrieved party can file a application to declare null and void within a period of one year when such fraud came to known to him or her.

2.) Bigamy is an offence provided first husband or wife is alive. However, the offence of Bigamy will not be applicable on a person if the following circumstances are present:-
(a) the first husband or wife is dead, or
(b) the first marriage has been declared void by the Court of competent jurisdiction, or
(c) the first marriage has been dissolved by divorce, or
(d) the first spouse has been absent or not heard of continually for a space of seven years.
[NOTE:- The party marrying must inform the person with whom he or she marries of this fact.]

Since, none of them is the case as per the matter explained by you, the offence of Bigamy will be applicable.


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Kevin M. Paul