Legal Question in Workers Comp in India

25.08.2013

Dear Naga,

Technically speaking, since you are legally wedded on 11.09.2010, you or your wife (since you left the country for going abroad) ought to have got the Marriage Certificate from the concerned Municipal Office which is usually issued within a month from the date of marriage.

Your wife should inform the CISF Department that although you got your marriage completed on 11.09.2010, you both had not completed the process of giving the minimum one month's prescribed notice before getting married; so the marriage held on 11.09.2010 could not be considered absolutely valid on the pretext of non service of the one month's notice prior to the date of marriage.

I hope you and your wife are living happily together since your return back from abroad i.e since 30.12.2011. Now your wife should insist that due to personal compelling reasons and family pressure, she did not disclose about her marriage to the CISF Personnel Department. You are correct that there is no prescribed time limit for declaration of marriage. And although your wife has informed the Department on 24.11.2012, the date of her marriage to you will read as 11.09.2010. You should apply for and obtain the duplicate Marriage Certificate now from the Municipality, and submit it to the CISF Personnel Department for their information and record, with a polite request to overlook the mistake.

Regards,