Landmark case · Family Law – II (Muslim Law and Other Personal Laws) · Semester 2

Lily Thomas v. Union of India

(2000) 6 SCC 224 · Supreme Court of India

A second marriage after conversion, while the first marriage subsists, is void and may attract bigamy; conversion is not a device to defeat monogamy.

From topic

Special Marriage Act, 1954 — Unit V, Family Law – II (Muslim Law and Other Personal Laws).

Related sections:

Special Marriage Act, 1954, 4 — Conditions relating to solemnization of special marriages
Special Marriage Act, 1954, 15–16 — Registration of marriages celebrated in other forms
Special Marriage Act, 1954, 24–28 — Void and voidable marriages; divorce and mutual consent