In unique settlement Noida techie gets a Sunday off from both his wives

In India bigamy is illegal. However this man married twice, found a unique solution to keep both his marriages alive

People do strange things, but it gets stranger when you will read about this arrangement made by a software engineer from Noida who married two women.

The two women he married have entered into a weird mutual agreement to save the marriages of all three persons involved.

The trio decided that the man will stay for three days a week with each wife and will be free on Sundays. The man has also agreed to divide his salary between his two wives. Further he assured that both will get a flat each.

While bigamy is unlawful, the man will continue to live with both his wives. The first wife would however retain all her legal rights despite the settlement ensuring that the matter will not go to court a report said.

According to the report, the 28-yer old man from Noida married a 26-year old woman from Gwalior in 2018. Both of them worked as software engineers in Gurugram. In 2020, the woman began pregnant and her husband dropped her at her parent's place in Gwalior. She was however advised not to move anywhere owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. The man returned to Gurugram and married another woman in 2021.

The second wife incidentally worked in the same software firm. The second woman got pregnant and delivered the child in July 2021. During this time, the first wife asked her husband to visit her at Gwalior, but he did not.

In January 2023, the first wife returned to Gwalior and confronted her husband. She was shocked to learn about his second wife, following which she filed a complaint at the Noida police station. However no FIR was filed.

On returning to Gwalior, she wanted to file a case against her husband under Sections 498A of the Indian Penal Code. She approached a lawyer, but he advised against it.

Harish Dewan the councillor appointed by the Gwalior family court advised her that if she files the case under Section 498A, the case would drag for years, while her husband would continue to live with the second wife. Moreover she would get nothing while the case is being heard by the court. He asked her to come up with some other solution so that her livelihood is not affected. He advised that she should go and live with her husband and try to get the second wife out of the house.

The husband was then called to Gwalior. Hearing about the case, the husband reached Gwalior accompanied by his second wife. He was advised to divorce the first wife and legally marry the second. The man however was not willing to do so.

The three then sat together and and arrived at this strange settlement.

The advocate said that the three agreed mutually to the agreement outside the court. The man will divide his salary of Rs 1.5 lakh a month equally between the two wives. He is also giving each of the wives a flat each which is worth Rs 80 lakh.

They also mutually agreed that the man will live with each wife for three days, while he would get a Sunday off from both of them. It was also decided that the first wife would retain all the legal rights and if this condition is broken, then she would file a case.

"Being a counsellor, the first attempt is to resolve the issue. The first wife wanted security for her baby and did not necessarily want to send her husband to jail. The second wife was ready to live with the first, but the man himself did not want to live with the first," Dewan said.