Vidhara

The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955

§22Proceedings to be in camera and may not be printed or published

(1) Every proceeding under this Act shall be conducted in camera and it shall not be lawful for any person to print or publish any matter in relation to any such proceeding except a judgment of the High Court or of the Supreme Court printed or published with the previous permission of the Court. (2) If any person prints or publishes any matter in contravention of the provisions contained in sub-section (1), he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.]

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Official text: India Code (official)

Official India Code text: The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955), English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1560/1/A1955-25Eng.pdf, 355,565 bytes, sha256 e0989d90e686ef3e...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-01. The same handle carries a Hindi edition (H1955-25Hi.pdf); the English 'Eng' file is the one ingested. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.

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