
Cannot annul marriage between adults: SC
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Why it is in news?
- Courts cannot annul marriages between two consenting adults or resort to a “roving enquiry” on whether the married relationship between a man and a woman is based on consent, the Supreme Court.
- A Bench defined the limits of the court’s jurisdiction in the Hadiya case.
- Hadiya, a 26-year-old homoeopathy student, had converted to Islam and then married a Muslim.
- The Kerala High Court had annulled Ms. Hadiya’s marriage to Shafin Jahan.
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