https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=156200 A woman induced into a void second marriage by concealment of the first marriage is an aggrieved person entitled to complain under the bigamy and concealment provisions of the Penal Code. A State amendment making those offences cognizable, with Presidential assent, prevails in Andhra Pradesh and permits police investigation and cognizance on a police report, even where the procedural bar in the Criminal Procedure Code would otherwise apply. Proceedings under cruelty provisions cannot be quashed merely because the complainant is later asserted not to be a legally wedded wife; a person treated as a wife remains protected by the provision's purposive scope. en-us Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 20 Sep 2013 10:27:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=156200 A woman induced into a void second marriage by concealment of the first marriage is an aggrieved person entitled to complain under the bigamy and concealment provisions of the Penal Code. A State amendment making those offences cognizable, with Presidential assent, prevails in Andhra Pradesh and permits police investigation and cognizance on a police report, even where the procedural bar in the Criminal Procedure Code would otherwise apply. Proceedings under cruelty provisions cannot be quashed merely because the complainant is later asserted not to be a legally wedded wife; a person treated as a wife remains protected by the provision's purposive scope. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=156200