Shillong, Sept. 29 -- The Mait Shaphrang Movement (MSM), a civil society group, has asked the Meghalaya State Commission for Women (MSCW) to insist on the state government reintroduce the preamble to the Meghalaya Compulsory Registration of Marriage Act, 2012, which was deleted by a 2022 amendment.
In a letter to MSCW Chairperson Iamonlang M. Syiem, MSM convener Micheal Syiem argued that the Amendment Act of the state's marriage registration law has stripped the law of its teeth by deleting crucial clauses.
"The Meghalaya Compulsory Registration of Marriage Act has been reduced to a paper tiger," he said, pointing to the deletion of Section 3 and the preamble, both of which previously made a marriage certificate mandatory for all official...