Become a Hindu to marry a Hindu: Supreme Court

If a Muslim woman plans to tie the knot with a Hindu man she should convert before marriage, otherwise the alliance could be declared illegal in the eye of the Hindu Marriage Act.

This edict came from the Supreme Court on Thursday in case of an IAF officer who had appealed for divorce from a Muslim woman who also had two kids from her first marriage. She was a Hindu before her last marriage.

The young officer had met the woman on board a  flight to Hyderabad from Delhi. They got married at his native place in Rajasthan. But the relationship soured and the IAF officer sought dissolution of the marriage on the ground that his wife was a Muslim at the time of marriage.The plea was accepted and the marriage was declared void.

But the woman produced evidence in a higher court that she was a Hindu before her first marriage and thus there was no violation of the Hindu Marriage Act.