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Assertion (A): A bigamous marriage is void under the Hindu law.
Reason (R): A child born out of a void marriage is the legitimate child of his parent.
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Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
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The Hindu Marriage Act, 1956 has declared bigamous marriage, i.e. second marriage ‘void’ during the subsistence of the first one, but the child born out of a void marriage is the legitimate child of his/her parent.