NRI sham marriages : a socio - legal problem in India

Abstract

Marriage as a social institution is losing its original concept and the legislative law as well as the courts are aware of this social upheaval. Just as drug abuse and attacks on internal security are external criminal threats to Indian society, matrimonial discord and changing matrimonial ethos are internal destabilizing factors in Hindu civil society. Legislative law and court procedures have a significant role to play in strengthening and streamlining the most important social institution of marriage. Thus, marriage laws and other measures for the welfare of women have become the focus of attention of the Indian legislature as well as Courts at all levels.