New Delhi. These days, Sonakshi Sinha-Zaheer Iqbal’s marriage is in the news. The main reason for this is their religion. While Sonakshi believes in Hinduism, her boyfriend Zaheer believes in Islam. In such a situation, speculations are being made whether Sonakshi will do Nikaah or take seven rounds with Zaheer. Whichever religion the couple will marry, it is obvious that there will be a lot of good and bad reactions. But the news that has come out about the couple’s marriage clearly shows that both of them will get married without changing their religion. To avoid controversies and to marry Zaheer, they have adopted the third way. They can get permission to marry without changing their religion only through the Special Marriage Act 1954. Under this Act, one does not have to change religion on getting married.
Shahrukh Khan and Gauri Khan also got married in the same way. The same problem that is happening with Sonakshi-Zaheer had come in Shahrukh’s life when he was going to marry Gauri who believed in Hinduism. To avoid controversies, they got married without converting their religion. Shahrukh married Gauri in court on 6 August 1991. After this, both of them had a Nikah and on 25 October 1991, Shahrukh-Gauri tied the knot as per Hindu rituals.
These stars also adopted this path
Like Shahrukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan had first done a court marriage with Amrita Singh. However, later both of them got divorced. After getting divorced from Amrita, Saif then did a court marriage with Kareena Kapoor under Special Marriage Act 1954. Kareena also made Saif her life partner without changing her religion. Aamir Khan Kiran Rao, Aamir Khan-Reena Dutta also got married under this act. Swara Bhaskar also got married to Fahad Zirar Ahmed under this act. Now Sonakshi Sinha is also thinking of moving forward in her life by following this act.
Know what is Special Marriage Act
Special Marriage Act 1954, also known as SMA, is a law for civil marriage which gives the right to conduct marriages to the state instead of religion. Things like marriage, divorce, adoption of a child are determined under religious rules which have been given the form of a separate law. These are called personal laws. Muslim Marriage Act 1954 and Hindu Marriage Act 1955 come under this law. But in SMA, people of two different religions (not only Hindu or Muslim) can get married without converting or losing their religious identity. Both civil and religious marriages are accepted in India. It includes people of Indian religions which include Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Jains, Buddhists. There are some conditions in this rule but they do not seem to be conditions that come in the way of any religion.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : June 12, 2024, 13:44 IST