JUDGMENT :

Jaishree Thakur, J.

1. The Regular Second Appeal has been filed by the appellant seeking to challenge the judgment and decree of both the courts below whereby her suit for declaration to the effect that the alleged marriage said to have taken place on 21.8.2014 between the appellant and the respondent herein is non-est, null and void as no marriage between the parties was performed according to the Hindu rites, has been dismissed.

2. The appellant/plaintiff (hereinafter referred to as 'the plaintiff') had filed a suit for declaration to the effect that the alleged marriage ceremony said to have taken place on 21.08.2014 between the plaintiff and the respondent/defendant (hereinafter referred to as 'the defendant') was null and void. It was the case of the plaintiff that she got to know the defendant through a common friend. The defendant and his family members coerced her to perform the marriage with the defendant. It is her case that the plaintiff did not enter into such relationship of her free consent. The relationship had not been solemnized as per the provisions of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and the parties never lived together as husband and wife. It was further her