{"id":31061,"date":"2018-10-27T11:59:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31061"},"modified":"2018-10-27T11:59:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:29:41","slug":"cannot-annul-marriage-between-adults-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cannot-annul-marriage-between-adults-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannot annul marriage between adults: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/courts-cant-decide-on-marital-ties\/article22830263.ece\"><b>Cannot annul marriage between adults: SC<\/b><\/a><b>)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Bench, led by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, defined the limits of the court\u2019s jurisdiction in the Hadiya case.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Introduction:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ms. Hadiya, a 26-year-old homoeopathy student, had converted to Islam and then married a Muslim.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kerala High Court had annulled Ms. Hadiya\u2019s marriage to Shafin Jahan<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her father, Asokan K.M., alleged that she had been indoctrinated by a \u201cwell-oiled network,\u201d involved in recruiting Indian citizens and trafficking them abroad to strife-prone countries like Syria to work as \u201csex slaves\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Courts jurisdiction:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Courts cannot annul marriages between two consenting adults or resort to a \u201croving enquiry\u201d on whether the married relationship between a man and a woman is based on consent, the Supreme Court said on Thursday.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Justice D.Y. Chandrachud countered that if there was trafficking of citizens involved, the govt. had the power to stop it on the basis of credible information. If citizens were travelling abroad to be part of a manifest illegality, then too, the government had the authority to stop them. \u201cBut in personal law, we cannot annul marriages because she did not marry the right person,\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannot annul marriage between adults: SC) Context: A Bench, led by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, defined the limits of the court\u2019s jurisdiction in the Hadiya case. Introduction: Ms. Hadiya, a 26-year-old homoeopathy student, had converted to Islam and then married a Muslim. The Kerala High Court had annulled Ms. Hadiya\u2019s marriage to Shafin Jahan Her&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cannot-annul-marriage-between-adults-sc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cannot annul marriage between adults: SC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704954207},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}