The Chhattisgarh High Court has ruled that a man, who marries a woman knowing fully well that her earlier marriage did not end in a valid divorce, is estopped from raising a plea of invalidity of marriage maintenance proceeding u/s 125 of CrPC. The Court made the observation while hearing a revision petition filed against
Whether invalidity of marriage can be pleaded in maintenance proceedings by a person, who knowingly married a woman who is not legally divorced?
