New Delhi: Can a church be included in a church between a man and a woman belonging to the Kuki tribe, which is dissolved by the Songpijan Village Committee and ‘Gonburus (village elder)’ ” Village’s elderly ‘on the action initiated by the husband who trusted the customer law in Dima Hasao district of Assam?Gauhati HC had said that once a church in a church takes a wedding in a church in the context of the Christian Marriage Act, 1872, it cannot be canceled by the customary law practices associated with the elderly of the village. Such a marriage can only be dissolved through the proceedings initiated before the HC or District Judge, which according to Section 10 of the Divorce Act, 1869, was said.The HC ruling took the Indian Ambassador to a magnificent marital position at Cuba, Thong Komang Armstrong Changson, as he ended with two wives. Before the announcement of HC in 2022, she was married to Neekhol Changson in the 1994 church marriage, she married another woman after a customary divorce. From both marriages, they have a daughter.SC says it is no sympathy for Cuba messengerFollowing the failure of arbitration of ordered by the Supreme Court, during the pendency of Changson’s appeal, a bench of Surya Kant and Joymlya Bagchi on Friday widely observed that HC decision is legally sound. Finding that the Indian Foreign Service officials have now married for nearly a decade and a half and half a decade, it decided to find a solution to this legal-practical complexity and helped the first wife start a new life. The ambassador said that he was paying a monthly maintenance of Rs 20,000 to Nicol and has given him a house in Delhi.Nikhol argued the case and told the court that she had brought her daughter in the same way without any participation from her husband. First wife says The first wife Neekhol alleged that he had now separated his daughter (29) from him. For the ambassador, senior advocate Maneka Guruswami said that the father was completing his daughter’s expenses, who are making a career in Bengaluru. Nikhol appealed to SC to “protect their respect and dignity”, explaining how Changson dissolved the marriage using the elderly of the tribal community, and remarried. A bench led by Justice Kant said, “We have no sympathy for man. HC decision is in your favor, and you have suffered socially and mentally. But can you think a way to start life?”Interestingly, ‘Cookie Inpi’ of Assam, the highest governing body of the Kuki tribe in the state, has said that the Cookie can neither dissolve the Christian marriage in the church nor can it force any couple to reunite against the wishes of the couple.SC said it could be beneficial for Nikhol to meet his daughter and discuss the future syllabus, and instead of living near his daughter’s place, asked to arrange his flight tickets to Bengaluru, and paid her an ad hoc amount of Rs 3 lakh to enable her to meet his daughter.Justice Kant said, “If there is a possibility of disposal, the daughter could play an important role,” Justice Kant said that the IFS officer should advise the IFS officer to re -establish contact with her mother.
