Special Marriage Act

Nusrat Jahan marriage row: From Turkish connection to breaching parliamentary propriety, what makes Basirhat MP's case complex

After Nusrat Jahan’s case, the government should take a lead and codify the law on subjects like live-in relationships

By enforcing notices under SMA, govt telling interfaith couples to convert or wait endlessly, says petitioner Nida Rehman

Notices of marriages under SMA intended to safeguard the interests of the two parties to the marriage, but for some years, they have been used to prevent, often forcibly, inter-faith and inter-caste marriages

'Only husband and wife make a family': Centre opposes same-sex marriage in Delhi HC

The affidavit comes after four people from the gay and lesbian community urged the court to declare that marriages between any two persons irrespective of their sex be solemnised under the Special Marriage Act

Love jihad laws risk security of inter-faith couples as few states comply with SC's safe house directive

Asif Iqbal, co-founder of Dhanak, a Delhi-based group that has helped 1,300 couples since 2012, says that SMA will be more helpful for couples if the provision of 30-days prior notice is removed

Prior notice of 30-day under Special Marriage Act 'fair and reasonable', Centre tells Delhi HC

The government contended that fundamental rights are not absolute and reasonable restrictions can be imposed on them

Allahabad High Court makes publication of notice for interfaith marriage optional

Making such publication mandatory would invade the fundamental rights of liberty and privacy, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court ruled

'Love jihad' laws: Announcements by BJP state govts raise political storm; myths, half-truths add fuel to fire

As opposed to an extreme position that such a law cannot be enacted at all, it is time political opposition participated constructively in ensuring that the legal processes to ensure public order in regard to conversions are efficient and robust.

Delhi HC seeks Centre's response on pleas seeking marriage equality for same-sex couples

A bench of Justices Rajiv Sahai Endlaw and Asha Menon issued notices to the authorities and posted the matter for further hearing on 8 January

Delhi HC declines plea to direct Centre to criminalise marital rape and make it grounds for divorce, says framing laws is domain of legislature

Since marital rape at present is not a crime, there is no FIR registered by a wife against her husband in any police station, the petition had said.

SC dismisses plea seeking to reduce men's marriageable age to 18 years, fines petitioner Rs 25,000 for filing PIL lacking merit

The petition has challenged the provisions of the Child Marriage Restraint Act, the Special Marriage Act and the Hindu Marriage Act which deal with the minimum marriageable age for men.