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NEW DELHI: The Assam Assembly connected Tuesday passed “The Assam Prohibition of Polygamy Bill, 2025,” aiming to prohibition polygamous marriages crossed the authorities and enforce strict penalties connected those who participate into oregon conceal a 2nd matrimony portion the archetypal is inactive valid.The law, introduced by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma connected the archetypal time of the wintertime session, volition use statewide but successful Sixth Schedule areas and to members of Scheduled Tribes arsenic defined nether the Constitution. Speaking earlier the authorities assembly approved the bill, Sarma said the legislation, which bans polygamous marriages crossed astir of Assam, is not against Islam."Islam can't beforehand polygamy. If this measure passes, past you volition get a accidental to beryllium a existent Muslim.
This measure is not against Islam. The existent Islamic radical volition invited this Act. Countries similar Turkey person besides banned Polygamy; determination is an arbitration assembly successful Pakistan..." Sarma said, arsenic cited by ANI.Sarma has besides pledged to instrumentality the Uniform Civil Code successful Assam if helium is re-elected successful adjacent year’s assembly polls."If I instrumentality to the assembly arsenic the Chief Minister, I volition bring the UCC successful the archetypal league of the assembly.
I springiness you my committedness that I volition bring the UCC to Assam," Sarma added.The measure was introduced amid the lack of absorption MLAs from Congress, CPI(M), and Raijor Dal, who staged a walkout pursuing a treatment connected the decease of vocalist Zubeen Garg. "No idiosyncratic shall marry, if, helium has a surviving spouse oregon helium is not legally separated from the different spouse pursuing owed process of law, aft marriage, oregon helium is simply a enactment to a matrimony which is not yet dissolved oregon annulled by a decree of divorcement and either has close to entreaty oregon the specified clip for entreaty has not been expired oregon is successful appeal, oregon the entreaty has been presented but has not yet been dismissed," the measure mentions, arsenic cited by ANI.
"Whoever abets immoderate offences punishable nether this Act oregon attempts to perpetrate immoderate specified offence shall beryllium punishable with the punishment arsenic provided nether the Act for the offence of polygamy. Whoever, during the beingness of his oregon her spouse oregon during subsistence of a valid matrimony oregon without having been lawfully divorced from the spouse, oregon without having been declared the matrimony null and void oregon dissolved, contracts a matrimony contravening immoderate of the provisions contained successful the Act nether Section 4 shall beryllium blameworthy of an offence punishable with imprisonment upto 7 years and a fine," the measure adds.
