The High Court of Karnataka has clarified that the Special Marriage Act, 1954, does not require a marriage to be registered under the Act as a prerequisite for the maintainability of a divorce petition. Presiding over the matter, Justice K. Manmadha Rao dismissed a writ petition filed by a wife challenging a lower court’s decision
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