Holiday Brides Marriages vis-a-vis NIR Bill 2019-Issues and Challenges in India

Abstract

This Article is to pendown the marital problems of middle class women/girls married huriedly to NRIs on vacations and labelled as ‘holiday brides’. Further this article focuses on the issues and challenges faced by the abandoned brides as to their stridhan, stigmatization in society, orders from foreign courts and there implementations, passive approach of foreign embassies and police in India and upbringing of kids. This article also emphasises on the Non –Resident Indian Bill, 2019 introduced in Rajya Sabha on legal method for booking the absconding NRI grooms who have mercilessly desserted the innocent wives/brides. A concern has been raised for applying rules of Private International law [PIL] in these cases involving NRIs on vacations deciving Indian girls.