Moksha Lingala, BBA LLB, Alliance School of Law, Bangalore
ABSTRACT
Registration of civil events such as birth, death, marriage, divorce etc. Are to be done mainly for obtaining legal information required by law, it is mainly required so that people will be recognised by the government when they are present in the books of record, it becomes easy and simple to identify the people by their registration of birth, marriage, divorce and death . In a country like India, it is made mandatory for birth registration of every person. But when it comes to marriages their registration has not been made as mandatory. Because of it being non-mandatory social evils like child marriages, bigamy, desertion etc. Are still going on which will affect women to a great extent. Even though in the case of Seema v. Ashwani Kumar the judgement has been given that registration of marriage is made compulsory for those who are married or are getting married, but still some people in some parts have got no idea that they need to register their marriage.
In India for registration of marriage there are so many laws and acts which govern marriages, in each state, according to each religion and so other. This leads to the confusion among the people who wish to register the marriage or are mandated to register their marriage that according to which law they should register their marriage
