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2017 Supreme(SC) 334

N.V.RAMANA, PRAFULLA C.PANT
Bhagwati @ Reena – Appellant
Versus
Anil Choubey – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellants : Dr. Rajesh Pandey, Nitin Bhardwaj, Abhishek Pandey, Advs.
For the Respondents:- V.K. Shukla, Ms. Kamlesh Tamrakar, Vijay Lakshmi, Amit Gaurav Singh, Advs.

ORDER

Leave granted.

2. This appeal is preferred by the appellant/wife questioning the order dated 06-05-2015 passed by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Jabalpur in First Appeal No. 623 of 2005 whereby the High Court confirmed the order passed by the Family Court dated 17-06-2005 in Civil Suit No.24-A/2002 declaring the marriage between the appellant/wife and the respondent/husband as void ab initio on account of appellant/wife having not completed 18 years of age at the time of marriage.

3. The respondent/husband filed Civil Suit No. 24-A/2002 on the file of the Presiding Officer, Family Court seeking declaration of the marriage between the parties solemnized on 07-07-1999 as null and void and sought for a decree of annulment.

4. It is the specific case of the husband that under the threat of registering a false complaint he was forced to marry the appellant-wife. Several complaints were given by her and he was put to lot of stress and coercion. It is also his specific case that their marriage was not consummated willfully. There was a threat to his life at the hands of his wife and her family after the marriage. He has also stated that at the time of marriage, his wife was less th










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