Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt was "extremely relieved" after a Mumbai court said his marriage with Manyata was legal and overruled a lower court's order annulling it.
Hearing a case filed by Manyata, the Sessions Court said the order passed by the Bandra metropolitan magistrate was not valid because she was legally divorced from her first husband Mehraj-ul-Rehman.
Mehraj had petitioned the Bandra metropolitan magistrate that he married Manyata in 2003 and their marriage was still valid as he had not divorced her yet. However, on appeal from Manyata, the Sessions Court upheld her contention that her marriage to Mehraj was dissolved as she had divorced him through 'khula'.
The Bandra magistrate's court had earlier said that as per the Muslim Marriage Act, 1939, the Muslim cleric (qazi) had no power to dissolve a marriage without the husband's consent. It had termed Manyata's claim that she and Mehraj were divorced as false on the grounds that there was no substantial evidence to back it.
Additional Sessions Judge S N Sardesai ruled that the divorce between Manyata and Mehraj was legal as per the Muslim Marriage Act and a woman was free to marry a person of her choice after getting divorced as per law.
After the judgement, the actor said: "I'm extremely relieved by the court verdict." The couple had a court wedding in Goa on February 7. Four days later, they married in Mumbai according to Hindu rituals.
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