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Mere knowledge about second marriage not enough to sustain bigamy charges against in-laws: Supreme Court

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Mere knowledge about second marriage not enough to sustain bigamy charges against in-laws: Supreme Court
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said mere knowledge of the second marriage without any overt act, suggesting active participation or facilitation, or encouragement was not enough to sustain the charge of bigamy under Section 494 of the IPC.A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Augustine George Masih set aside the Kerala High Court's judgment of November 25, 2024 which declined to quash the FIR lodged against inlaws of a woman in Museum police station in Thiruvananthapuram in 2016 under Sections

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