Chennai

The first bench of CJ Indira Banerjee and Justice Abdul Quddhose before whom the plea came up ordered notice returnable within a week. 

Surya Vetrikondan of Nandanam had contended that though the Tamil Nadu Registration of Marriages Act 2009 was enacted it failed to make registration mandatory.

In fact, Section 23 therein provides that no marriage would be considered invalid on the basis that it had not been registered under the Act. Noting that it ought to be changed, he said it is time that a scheme of regularisation be brought in to register all marriages and maintain a data base of the same similar to how property-related transactions are catalogued and made available upon search. 

Also, marriage details should be made available on application for the same and an adjudication system for condoning delays in registration and for resolving disputes be created, he said. 

Pointing out that it’s time to check the major reason for divorces, viz the medical fitness, he said while the parents of the boy or the girl check the background, character, number of siblings, presence or absence of in-laws and harmony in horoscopes, they fail to check the physical fitness.

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