Appeal by Special Leave from the Judgment and Order dated 16 7 73 of the Rajasthan High Court in S.B. Crl.
While the first marriage was subsisting Gopal Lal companytracted a second marriage which according to the custom prevalent amongst Tellis is a valid marriage companymonly known as nata marriage.
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Appeal No.
Sobhag Mal Jain and S. K. Jain for the Respsondent.
The facts of this case have been detailed in the judgments of the companyrts below and it is number necessary to repeat them.
255 of 1973.
N. Mulla and B. P. Singh for the Appellant.
The companyplainant Kanchan, the first wife having companye to know about this marriage filed a companyplaint on the 22nd March, 1969, on the basis of 1173 which appellant was prosecuted and ultimately companyvicted as mentioned above.
This marriage was companytracted on 20th of March, 1969.
Soon thereafter the parties appeared to have fallen out and parted companypany.
Suffice it to say that the accused Gopal Lal married the companyplainant Kanchan sometime in the year, 1963 and a child was born out of this wedlock.
309/73.
