Bill to seize passports of NRIs if marriage not registered tabled

Non-Resident Indians who marry an Indian citizen or a fellow NRI abroad have to compulsorily register their marriages within 30 days or face the prospects of their passports being impounded or even revoked, according to a Bill introduced in the Rajya Sabha on Monday. The Registration of Marriage of Non-Resident Indian Bill, 2019, also allows courts to attach movable and immovable properties of NRIs who are declared “proclaimed offenders” for failing to appear before law. The draft law also allows courts to send summons to the accused.