India, March 2 -- In an important ruling, the Bombay high court on Friday held that a special marriage cannot be termed void owing to minor irregularities such as one of the parties not residing within the jurisdiction of the concerned Registrar of Marriages for a continuous period of 30 days preceding notice of marriage.

"On such irregularity, the marriage cannot be rendered or labelled to be a void marriage, for the reason that the categories of void marriages are set out in section 24 of the Special Marriage Act," the division bench of justices GS Kulkarni and Advait Sethna said while delivering the verdict on petition filed by Thane resident Priyanka Bannerji.

Banerji had approached the high court after the German embassy on January...