CHITTATOSH MUKHERJEE

( 1 ) THE present petitioner is defendant No. 1 in a suit brought by the plaintiff petitioner in the first court of the Munsif at Bankura inter alia for a declaration that on 20th January 1977 or any other date no marriage between him and the defendant No. 1 was solemnized according to Hindu Shastras or according to any other law and also a declaration that the child born to the defendant No. 1 was not by the loin of the plaintiff. The second prayer in the plaint of the said suit is for a declaration that the entries regarding the said alleged marriage in Bankura Sub-registry Office dated 21st January, 1977 were fraudulent and null and void. The plaintiff opposite party has also prayed for permanent injunction to restrain the defendant no. 1 from claiming herself as the married wife of the plaintiff or from asserting that the child to whom she has given birth was born by the loin of the plaintiff. The defendant nos. 1 and 2 have contested the said suit by filing a written statement. They have inter alia pleaded that in fact marriage between the plaintiff and the defendant no. 1 was duly solemnized according to Hindu rites and the registration of the said marria

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