Bold: Your terminology here is incorrect. Marriages done by duress or force are VOIDABLE not automatically void. The parties have to take the initiative to have them voided. So it was incumbent on imlie and Aditya to apply to the courts to have their first marriage voided for it to be illegal. Which they didn't do. In fact the reverse. When Aditya took Imlie back to Pagdandiya they performed those rituals again in front of Meethi and Satyakam and other witnesses too. To compound this even more there was the table thod shaadi. But all these arguments aren't even required because Adilie's marriage was validated and regarded as the first one by the court during Malini's rape trial. And so all arguments are moot. Imlie and Aditya were legally married and they were married first.
Behena don't judge my legal language. My knowledge of the Indian constitution came from a spontaneous search on the internet 🤪
I have not watched all of the episodes before ASR's entry just enough to build a concrete understanding (honestly that was a crap fest I couldn't bear 😆). Anyways coming to the point all marriages from 2006 has to be registered. Marriage 1.0 was not registered and the furniture tod shaadi does not abide by the act's criteria. So technically the two were never married.
There was rape trial??? Yeh kab hua? But how was the marriage validated at that point... cause it wasn't registered earlier and if they registered it then (after) was only 2.0 registered because Adini 1.0 was def registered before.