New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) With the government set to reintroduce the marriage laws amendment bill in the Lok Sabha to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act to make irretrievable breakdown of marriage a ground for divorce, the Supreme Court has urged a rethink if it was an expedient ground for untying the matrimonial knot. "It is highly debatable whether, in the Indian situation, where there is rampant oppression of women, such a ground would at all be expedient," said the bench of Justice Vikramajit Sen and Justice Prafulla C. Pant in a recent judgment.
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