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Is a marriage between a woman and a woman-turned-man is valid or void..?
Mumbai: Annul marriage, pleads man who was born a girl
MUMBAI: In probably the first case of its kind in India, a 31-year-old businessman has moved the family court in Bandra seeking to have his year-old marriage annulled as he was born a girl. His plea is that the marriage solemnised a year after his sex reassignment surgery remains unconsummated, and thus void.
His wife, too, has moved a magistrate's court against him and his family under the domestic violence act to protect her rights as a wife. The 29-year-old fashion designer has claimed Rs 1 lakh a month as maintenance and an alternative residence in south Mumbai.
The question before the family court in Bandra is whether a marriage between a woman and a woman-turned-man is valid or void under the Hindu Marriage Act. Last week, the court posted the matter for hearing after the summer vacation as neither the wife nor her lawyer appeared before it.
The businessman underwent a sex reassignment surgery a year before the December 2015 marriage solemnised under Hindu vedic rites. He said that even when younger, he "always felt like a boy trapped in a girl's body".
Read more at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...age-void-moves-court/articleshow/57980544.cms
Mumbai: Annul marriage, pleads man who was born a girl
MUMBAI: In probably the first case of its kind in India, a 31-year-old businessman has moved the family court in Bandra seeking to have his year-old marriage annulled as he was born a girl. His plea is that the marriage solemnised a year after his sex reassignment surgery remains unconsummated, and thus void.
His wife, too, has moved a magistrate's court against him and his family under the domestic violence act to protect her rights as a wife. The 29-year-old fashion designer has claimed Rs 1 lakh a month as maintenance and an alternative residence in south Mumbai.
The question before the family court in Bandra is whether a marriage between a woman and a woman-turned-man is valid or void under the Hindu Marriage Act. Last week, the court posted the matter for hearing after the summer vacation as neither the wife nor her lawyer appeared before it.
The businessman underwent a sex reassignment surgery a year before the December 2015 marriage solemnised under Hindu vedic rites. He said that even when younger, he "always felt like a boy trapped in a girl's body".
Read more at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...age-void-moves-court/articleshow/57980544.cms
