Supreme Court of India

Ashwin Nanubhai Vyas v. State of Maharashtra & Anr.

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Bench M. Hidayatullah, S.M. Sikri and Raghubar Dayal JJ.
Decided 10 October 1966

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What the Court ordered

The appeal fails and it will be dismissed.

Judgment, p. 812

In brief

Kusum Vithal Abhyankar filed a complaint under s. 198 Cr.P.C. against the appellant Vyas alleging offences under ss. 417, 493 and 496 IPC, namely that he went through a sham marriage with her before a man posing as an officer of the Registrar of Marriages, cohabited with her and then abandoned her and married another, and that a pregnancy resulting from the cohabitation was medically terminated because of her heart ailment.…

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