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Ravi rao (Private )     23 September 2025

Customary divorce in hindu

My wife customary divorce and she married another person with out legal divorce as per hindu marriage act. We are reddy community.  We don't have customary divorce.  

 

I filled 494 420 crpc against my wife and used  2nd marriage certificate as evidence.  Now my wife say I had given customary divorce and no cheating as we wriiten document of divorce.  I urged no customary divorce in reddy community and i had to 5 years to get divorcebased on biagamy. 

Is customary divorce document is valid in crpc ,will she get sentence or acquitted for 420 and 494.  Thanks

 

 



 5 Replies

T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Advocate)     23 September 2025

For a marriage recognised as legally valid by observing the religious rites, a customary divorce without a court decree is not valid.

P. Venu (Advocate)     23 September 2025

"Now my wife say I had given customary divorce and no cheating as we wriiten document of divorce ................"!  Is it true?


T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Advocate)     24 September 2025

Evidence such as customary divorce deeds or community acknowledgment is required to prove the validity of the custom to the court. 

 The Reddy community must have a customary right to divorce that has been continuously and uniformly observed for a long time. 
Section 29(2) of the Hindu Marriage Act, explicitly states that the Act's provisions will not affect any right recognized by custom to dissolve a marriage.

It protects established customary practices from being overridden by the HMA, making customary divorces valid if the custom is proven.

 

Dr. J C Vashista (Advocate )     24 September 2025

Since you have stated to have filed a complaint case u/s 494 / 420 IPC, what is your query and what is the opinion and advise of your lawyer ?

P. Venu (Advocate)     26 September 2025

The querist's silence is intriguing. Admittedly, he was a party to the divorce by custom. If so, he estopped from proceedings Under Section 420 and 494.


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