how can it makes RK illegitimate?? - Page 8

Originally posted by: _charu_

you guessed it right..but that's half the truth..acc. to the Indian laws , children born out of void marriages are not illegitimate...

Originally posted by: Wicked-Anoshka

Arey nahi baba, I was trying to explain the situation to myself and I also agreed with the TM, saying their marriage's got to be registered unless they got married 100 years ago!🤔

Originally posted by: Nafs_Sweetheart

I think that as well, as Meeraji and Mohan were both hindu's they married with full rituals properly under the Hindu marital act the person that Mohan married first without divorcing is his legal wife the second wife Radhaji is not his wife, even if he registered the marriage to Radhaji rather than the marriage to Meeraji.

Because the Hindu marital act recognises the first hindu marriage as his one true marriage. Mohan didn't divorce Meeraji therefore even though he registered the second marriage maybe, I don't know, perhaps he didn't even register the second marriage out of fear that he would be caught to be a polygamist he just married both wives in hindu ceremony of saat phere only. In either case registration or not of the second marriage Meeraji is his true wife because the Hindu marital act takes precedence in the decision of who is his wife.

Originally posted by: leelaa9

It doesn't.
No newspaper in the real world would dare try for such a headline without expecting to be sued into closing down.

Mohan and Meera's wedding photo implies ritual wedding, but that doesn't make Meera legally his wife as per Indian law.
It would only grant legitimacy to the child of Mohan and Meera, not the status of legitimate wife to Meera herself.
So Radha's legal status as Mohan's wife and the resulting legitimacy for her son by Mohan is unassailable.

And if Mohan and Meera were legally married, then by that same reasoning, RK would still be legally Mohan's legitimate son since Radha was ritually married to Mohan and was socially accepted as his wife.

If the first marriage fulfills all legal requirements, the second marriage is acceptable only if the first wife does not object.
But if the first marriage does not fulfil all legal requirements, then second marriage is accepted legally.

Sultan could also have claimed legitimacy if a DNA test proved him to be Mohan's son.
But Mohan is dead.
And even a DNA test with a sibling of the same two parents doesn't necessarily match.
So a DNA test with a supposed stepbrother would have no worth.

The only thing that can be proven one way or the other is which of the two women Meera and Radha was married to Mohan fulfilling all legal marriage requirements, as per Indian Hindu Marriage law.

But no matter what that turns out, RK remains legally legitimate by Indian law.
And unless Mohan Kundra is alive, Sultan can't even legally prove himself to be Mohan's son, legitimate or not.