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The court was hearing an application filed by a Muslim man who sought to register his third marriage with a woman from Algeria in February 2023.

The Bombay High Court has allowed Muslim men to register more than one marriage, ruling that the Maharashtra Marriage Act does not override Muslim personal law, which permits up to four wives.The...

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The CFA had been forced to apply for the detention order for the teen, when he was aged 14, last December.

Turaki had filed an application seeking to stop a woman, Uwani Arabi and two others from further making any form of publications about a paternity dispute between them.

The authorities refused to register the marriage on the ground that under the Maharashtra Regulation of Marriage Bureaus and Registration of Marriage Act, the definition of marriage contemplates only a single marriage and not multiple unions.

 The corporation contended that the marriage may only be registered once under the Act and that the couple did not furnish the documents necessary for registration. | OpIndia News

Bombay High Court allows Muslim man to register third marriage, citing personal laws permitting multiple unions.

The couple sought direction to the authorities to issue them a marriage certificate, claiming that their application was rejected as this was the man's third marriage.

The Bombay High Court bench declared that Muslim men can legally register multiple marriages as per personal law.