law: Special Marriage Act, 1954 
  43. Penalty on married person marrying
  
  again under this act
  Save as otherwise
  
  provided in Chapter III, every person who, being at the time married, procures,
  
  a marriage of himself or herself to be solemnized under this Act shall be
  
  deemed to have committed an offence under section 494 or section 495 of the
  
  Indian Penal Code, as the case my be, and the marriage so solemnized shall be
  
  void.