Amid scores of cases coming forth against Non-Resident Indian men trapping women in fraudulent marriages with various intents, a bill was introduced on Rajya Sabha of India on Monday to making it mandatory to register such marriages within 30 days.
If failed to register within given period of time, the NRI man’s passport can be impounded or revoked.
In addition, it allows courts to attach properties, movable and immovable, of “proclaimed offenders” or people who fail to appear before courts despite warrants being issued against them.
The ‘Registration of Marriage of Non-Resident Indian Bill, 2019’ allows passport authorities to revoke or impound travel documents or passport of NRIs who neglect to register their marriage within 30 days of getting married.
The proposed law will be relevant to NRIs get married to Indian women within or even outside India, according to the bill.
Since the Budget session ends on Wednesday and is the last session before Lok Sabha elections, the bill is unlikely to be passed.
As it has been introduced in Rajya Sabha and is liable to remain pending there, it would not lapse on the dissolution of the present (16th) Lok Sabha on June 3.
-Sowmya Sangam
