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Definition :

Idiocy, means if the respondent, though suffering from some mental aberrations, is capable of understanding the nature of marriage and the marriage ceremony, then he cannot be called a lunatic or an idiot, Moujilal v. Chakravorti, 38 IA 1222; See also Usha v. Abraham, AIR 1988 Ker 96.

Means the condition of a person who, from birth, has never had any glimmering of reasoning or intellectual faculties, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 748.