India, Nov. 12 -- A divorce obtained in a foreign court on a ground that Indian law does not recognise cannot dissolve a marriage solemnised here, and a person who remarries on the strength of such a decree remains liable to prosecution for bigamy, the Supreme Court has held.

A bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Shree Chandrashekhar refused to interfere with the Andhra Pradesh High Court's order declining to quash the bigamy case against the husband. Justice Mishra authored the judgment, delivered on November 3.

The court was hearing a man who married his first wife at Sattenapalli in Andhra Pradesh on April 18, 2003, under Hindu rites and customs. He later took British citizenship, in February 2013, and instituted divorce proc...