Physical Presence Not Must To Register Special Marriage Act Wedding: Court
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Kerala High Court directed centre's lawyer to seek instructions on policies on facial recognition and other data tools for identification of parties.
Weddings under the Special Marriage Act can be registered without insisting upon the physical presence of the parties, the Kerala High Court said today. However, the challenge was identification of both the parties by the marriage officer and one of the options for that is use of technology like facial recognition software or biometrics, the high court said. Noting that the court does not have the expertise to work out the modalities on use of technology for such matters, a bench of Justices A Muhamed Mustaque and Kauser Edappagath impleaded the Department of Information Technology and the Ministry of External Affairs as parties in the matter. The bench directed the central government's lawyer to seek instructions on the government policies on facial recognition and other data tools for the identification of the parties.More Related News