JUDGMENT

1. This is a wife’s appeal under section 19 of the Family Courts Act 1984, against the judgment and decree dated 13th April 2018, passed by the Principal Judge, Family Court, Rewa in Civil Suit No.48-A/2015, by which the petition of the respondent-husband under section 11 of the Hindu Marriage Act 1955 [hereinafter in short “the Act of 1955”] has been allowed and the marriage solemnized between the parties has been declared as null and void.

2. Some of the admitted facts for the decision of the present appeal are as under :-

(i) On 18.5.2014, the marriage between the parties was solemnized at village Khandora, Tahsil Deosar, District Singrauli (M.P) according to Hindu rites and rituals.

(ii) The appellant-wife had already been married in the year 1984 as per Hindu rites and rituals with one Amarjeet Pandey, when she was only aged about 8-10 years.

(iii) The marriage of appellant-wife with her earlier husband Amarjeet Pandey, was dissolved on 15.7.2015 (Ex-D-7) vide judgment and decree under section 13(B) of the Act of 1955, passed by Additional District Judge Deosar, District Singrauli.

(iv) On 14.5.2015, the respondent-husband preferred a petition under section 11 of