New Delhi: The Delhi High Court, while rejecting a husband’s plea against a family court order, has ruled that if a marriage between members of the Scheduled Tribes (ST) community is solemnised with Hindu rituals, the union falls under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955.

The bench of Justices Anil Kshetrapal and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar was dealing with an appeal filed by the husband against a family court decision that held his marriage to the respondent spouse was covered under the Hindu Marriage Act.

In his petition, the husband argued that since they belong to the Lambada (Banjara) tribe, to which the Hindu Marriage Act does not apply, the case could not be entertained. Show Full Article

The high court, however, observed that the key question in such cases is how the marriage was sole

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