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

Sarla Mudgal v. Union of India

AIR 1995 SC 1531 · Supreme Court of India

A Hindu husband cannot, by converting to Islam, marry a second wife during the subsistence of the first marriage; the first marriage remains valid.

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