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Satish (Sr mgr)     03 August 2017

Validity of a hindu marriage without any pheras.

The boy's side in a girl's marriage are insisting on a ' Zero PHERAS" marriage as per advice of their some 'Guru '  No one is comfortable with the idea as but the girl is adamant for marriage. Now please tell .1) Wherher such a marriage is legally valid . 2) Will the court issue a marriage certificate after such marriage. OR 3) Should a court marriage be insisted before such marriage 4) What could be the motive of the boy's side for such a legally untenable marriage 

A very very urgent reply shall be highly appreciated



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Adv Radhika Mehta (Advocate)     04 August 2017

In my opinion, satapadi is absolutely essential for a valid Hindu Marriage. 

if zero-pheras is what the other side is insisting upon, i would suggest you to go for a Court marriage under the provisions of a Special Marriage Act.   

Raveena Kataria (Advocate )     21 August 2017

Hi! As rightly suggested above, section 7 of the Hindu Marriage Act lays down that the sacred act of Satapadi would be essential to solemnize a marriage between two Hindus. (Refer to section 7A of the act, as well as S Nagaraj case, as there also exists an amendment which does away with the necessity of Satapadi. It may or may not apply to this case depending upon the case's circumstances.)

However, of course, the parties can also choose to marry under the Special Marriage Act. For that, no ceremonies would be necessary for the solemnization of marriage, just a few steps to be taken like sending of notice to the Special Marriage officer of the parties' district, and so on as per the act provisions.


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