Marriage with 2 wives and bigamy

Sudhir Sir i want to file case on Bigamy and Cheating and i want to get Alimony and Maintenance.Is this possible for me ?

Yes i knew about his earlier marriage which i deny now as there is no proof for him to show that i knew about it.

Also if i accept that i knew then i will not get any Alimony and i will also be punished.

The legal aspect is that second wife can also file for Bigamy. The SC has held in A. Subash Babu v. State of A.P., (2011) 7 SCC 616

You knew that he is already having a wife so you cannot be complainant rather accused in bigamy case.

If you did not know about his earlier existing marriage then charges against him can be more serious than cheating or bigamy.

Author, learned Sudhir Kumar ji is referring to rape charges.

I have two clear questions -

a) Why did you marry a person by knowing that he is a husband of another woman ?

b) So you have committed a crime by knowingly and now willing to commit another crime by filing another false case?

Learned Mr. Sudhir Kumar Sir, Please look into this.

Originally posted by : Rocky Smith
	I have two clear questions -   a) Why did you marry a person by knowing that he is a husband of another woman ?   b) So you have committed a crime by knowingly and now willing to commit another crime by filing another false case?   Learned Mr. Sudhir Kumar Sir, Please look into this.

I will wait for the querist to react.

Madame Goyal:

Your ex-husband can be punished for bigamy. But that will not entitle you for alimony. You can claim you are cheated if the court can be made to accept that at the time of your marriage you did not know that he was already married. If so you can claim monetary compensation. But such compensation cannot have the name alimony or maintenance.

At the time of your marriage to him you knew that he was already married, but you thought that he had obtained divorce. But later you knew that he obtained divorce only after you married him. Hence your marriage to him is void. But this is purely a technical situation which you can correct by marrying him formally again. Now you do not want to marry him, why? Is it that rather than marrying him you want to take advantage of the situation to extract a good amount of money from him? If that is so, you marry him now, remain married for some months or years and then seek divorce. You can claim alimony, maintenance etc as a legal wife.