Page "Baron Sinha" Paragraph 1

In 1936, Aroon Sinha presented petition for a writ of summons to the House of Lords.

The petition was referred to the Committee for Privileges on 27 June 1938, and a Commission was appointed to take evidence in Calcutta, on this birth and marriage.

Ultimately, on 25 July 1939, the Committee for Privileges decided that Lord Sinha had succeeded in his claim.

The decision remarks that the decision was not precedent for a peer who had legally married two wives ( at the same time ), and that there is no British law on heirship in the case of a polygamous marriage ; but in this case that difficulty did not arise-and in fact the first Lord Sinha had belonged to the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, a variety of Hinduism which required monogamy.