Procedure of court marriage in India

Marriage is the purest form of bring two soul together. And to make this happen we have two form of marriages in India. One is arrange marriage and the second one is love marriage broadly known as court marriage.
Marriage has always been a favorable innovation in India but quite sadly, things doesn’t work properly for the one who is in love and want to do love marriage.

It’s quite absurd to stick to old fashioned traditions where parents solely do the selection of life partner for their children and they have to follow each and every instructions. Girls did not enjoy any freedom and were forced to marry the one, her parents chose for her. Despite of the fact, in past we have popular love stories in India.

With time more flexibility has been given to girls and now they are treated equal to boys. The society is more open minded and now showing tremendous change. More talking between the opposite sex opening the new era of marriage where percentage of love marriages in the country is rapidly increasing.

Court marriage as you can say, it’s solemnized under the Special Marriage Act, 1954. All such marriages can take place between any two Indian citizens or one Indian citizen with a foreigner irrespective of their religion, caste or creed, and you can say this is the secular form of marriage available in India.

Cost of court marriage is merely Rs.90/- ( rates may vary according to the region you reside )

The process begins like this:
Both the interested parties to the marriage file a joint application before the marriage officer along with individual affidavit attested by notary public specifying the age (boy 21yrs and girl 18yrs), place of residence, marital status ( unmarried or divorcee ), mental status ( not idiot or not with unfit mind ), not related to each other.

Along with this you have to give proof of age , proof of residence ( Passport, ration card, voters id card, PAN card, rent agreement ) and the application of such a marriage should be witnessed by 3 independent adults, affix one photograph of each of the parties and all the 3 witnesses.

You have made such an application/notice to the marriage officer in person along with all the 3 witnesses.

After submission of an application the marriage officer issues a month notice regarding the proposed marriage and get such a notice affixed on the notice board out side his office, a copy of such notice is sent to the marriage officer under whose jurisdiction the other party lives, also a copy is sent to the individual parties address.

After expiry of the period of notice, a date is fixed on which the party along with 3 witnesses appear again before the marriage officer who declare them married and issue a certificate to this regard.

In case of any objections raised the marriage officer will settle these objections.

The next obvious question is what can be the objections that can be raised?

These can only be regarding the conditions necessary for such mariage & nothing else. What are the conditions? As I stated above i.e. Age, martial status, mental status, prohibited relationship (related to each other by blood).