Alternate Prison Time Awarded To Couple Accused Of Bigamy For Child's Care

However, to ensure that the couple's child is taken care off, the Supreme Court ordered that the husband will serve his sentence first and after he completes his term, the woman is to surrender.

The Supreme Court yesterday sentenced a woman and her second husband to six months in jail each for committing bigamy, setting aside a Madras High Court which had let off the couple with a "flea-bite sentence".

The woman had remarried while her divorce proceedings were still pending before a family court.

A Supreme Court bench led by CT Ravikumar and PV Sanjay Kumar - while observing that bigamy was a "serious offence which impacts the society" - said that it's not advisable to let off the accused with a light sentence.