Allahabad High Court has recently said a big thing. The High Court has said that ‘Kanyadan’ is not necessary to solemnize a marriage under the Hindu Marriage Act, whereas Saptapadi i.e. seven rounds is necessary. The Lucknow bench of the High Court, while hearing a revision petition filed by one Ashutosh Yadav, said that only ‘Saptapadi’ (Sanskrit for ‘seven rounds’) is an essential ceremony of marriage and not Kanyadaan.
High Court said – seven rounds are necessary
The High Court has given this decision while hearing the petition of a person Ashutosh Yadav. Yadav, who had challenged an order passed by the Lucknow additional sessions judge on March 6 while fighting a criminal case filed by his in-laws, had submitted before the trial court that the ‘Kanyadan’ ceremony for his marriage was prohibited under the Act. Mandatory, which was not done. There was a dispute regarding this matter. The court said that according to the provisions of this Act, only Saptapadi is the tradition which is necessary to solemnize a Hindu marriage, not Kanyadaan.
This was the case on which the court gave its verdict
Dismissing Yadav’s review plea, HC Justice Subhash Vidyarthi said, “The Hindu Marriage Act provides for ‘Saptapadi’ i.e. seven rounds as an essential ceremony in a marriage… Whether ‘Kanyadan’ was performed or not, This would not be necessary for a proper decision in this case.”
A prayer was made for re-summoning of two witnesses in an ongoing criminal case relating to matrimonial dispute, in which the petitioner’s prayer was rejected and the petitioner had approached the High Court. The petitioner said that there are witnesses for the prosecution to establish whether his wife had undergone Kanyadaan or not, which includes the plaintiff. He said that summons should be sent to the plaintiff again.
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