Can children from first marriage challenge validity of second under Special Marriage Act? SC agrees to examine

The Supreme Court bench issued notice to the government and two parties to consider the issue of interpretation of the Special Marriage Act after the children from the first marriage of the woman’s husband went to court saying the marriage was invalid.

: Thirteen years after a Muslim woman married a Hindu man under the Special Marriage Act, the children from his first marriage went to court saying the marriage was invalid. This was in 2016. The matter has now come before the Supreme Court of India.