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Right to Privacy upheld? PIL filed in SC challenges some articles in the Special Marriage Act, 1954

Filed by a law student, the PIL claims the Act invades people’s right to privacy

by Abizar
Sep 4, 2020 07:22 IST

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has received a PIL challenging certain provisions of the Special Marriage Act, 1954 stating that they violated a couple’s right to privacy.

The petitioner claims that Section 5 of the Act requires a couple to file a notice of intended marriage to be given to the marriage officer where at least one of the parties have lived there 30 days immediately preceding to the time of presentation of the said notice.

Filed by a female law student, it also claims that Section 6, which lets people ‘scrutinize’ and object to the intended marriage gave undue advantage to the marriage officer in that regard.

These anomalies in the law violate the constitutional rights of the couple who intend to marry, depriving them of the right to privacy under Section 21 of the Constitution of India., the petitioner said.

Additionally, the petitioner said there wasn’t any such requirement in the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 or the Muslim Law.

Twitterati had a field day trolling this development. One person turned the development on its head with this tweet.

Men of all religion: read (c), Husband shall not be released on bail till wife is "satisfied"?

What #Hindus think of similar jail term in #HinduMarriageAct / #Sikhs think in #AnandMarriageAct / other religion in #SpecialMarriageAct#WarAgainstHusband#TripleTalaq@MenWelfare pic.twitter.com/wWRmwZlNzb

— Human (@Jhakasbachha) June 20, 2019

Another commented-

Another piece by @ShoaibDaniyal allows us to acknowledge our privileged position in this process. The Indian state can be a 'super khap panchayat' which uses the #specialmarriageact as a surveillance tool for couples belonging to different religions https://t.co/BGvTIOJ957

— Anushree (@AnushreeJairath) August 11, 2020

If you want to kick extravagance, caste, religion and related non-sense out from your wedding, there is ‘Special Marriage Act’.
It’s simple and elegant.
Your marriage, your wedding, your business. #SpecialMarriageAct

— The Open Book (@sajitmmathews) March 1, 2019
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Overall, this seems like a welcome development as interfaith marriages may now not need special permissions to get it done.

Source: ANI Twitter
Tags: interfaith marraigeSpecial Marraige Act
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