Calcutta high court ruled on 21/8/15 if a marriage consent is obtained by fraud it can lead to the annulment of the marriage. "In our view, fraud denotes that if the consent to the marriage contract was obtained by fraud, then there is ground for an annulment of marriage and that fraud would be construed simply for not telling the truth in order to induce the other party to enter into the marriage contract," a bench of Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Shivakant Prasad observed. The high court upheld the trial court judgment, which had earlier declared the marriage as null and void.