{"id":240095,"date":"2020-12-04T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T06:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=240095"},"modified":"2020-12-04T12:14:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T06:44:42","slug":"all-hc-is-any-offence-committed-if-two-adults-wish-to-be-in-a-live-in-relationship-read-what-hc-ruled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/12\/04\/all-hc-is-any-offence-committed-if-two-adults-wish-to-be-in-a-live-in-relationship-read-what-hc-ruled\/","title":{"rendered":"All HC | Is any offence committed if two adults wish to be in a live-in relationship? Read what HC ruled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Allahabad High Court:\u00a0<\/strong>The Division Bench of Anjani Kumar Mishra and Prakash Padia, JJ., addressed a petition wherein, two major adults who were in a live-in relation sought protection from harassment for living together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The facts in the instant case are that petitioner 1 is a major and is aged about 24 years and petitioner 2 is aged about 28 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both the petitioners decided to be in a live-in relationship without any compulsion or coercion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Though respondents 4 and 5 forcibly tried to solemnize petitioner 1&#8217;s marriage against her wishes and on knowing the said fact, petitioner 1 decided to live with Ajay Kumar with her own free will and without fear and pressure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been added that both the petitioners have been happily living with each other but respondent 4 and 5 tried to harass them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In view of the harassment, petitioner 1 had filed a complaint seeking protection, but no action has been taken till date. Further, it was argued the law laid down by the Supreme Court from time to time <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">petitioners are legally entitled to Live-\u00adin relationship without any fear or pressure more especially when they are major.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since no action was taken by the police authorities, the present petition was filed.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Decision<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the Supreme Court decision of\u00a0<em>Lata Singh v. State of U.P.,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/xgj4ZTce\">(2006) 5 SCC 475<\/a>, it was observed that a live-in relationship between two consenting adults of heterosexual sex does not amount to any offence even though it may be perceived as immoral.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>In order to provide a remedy in civil law for the protection of women, from being victims of such relationship, <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">and to prevent the occurrence of domestic violence in the society, first time in India, the DV Act has been enacted to cover the couple having a relationship in the nature of marriage, persons related by consanguinity, marriages, etc. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Few other legislations have been provided with respect to reliefs to women placed in certain vulnerable situations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The issue in the instant matter had been already dealt with in the Supreme Court decision of <em>Indra Sarma v.<\/em> <em>V.K.V. Sharma, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/kzeAig4U\">(2013) 15 SCC 755<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from the Supreme Court decision, a long line of decisions has settled the law that:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">where a boy and a girl are major and they are living with their free will, then, nobody including their parents has the <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">authority to interfere with their living together.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bench further opined that the petitioners are at liberty to live together and no person shall be permitted to interfere in their <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">peaceful living.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 9\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Court further added that, in case any disturbance is caused in the peaceful living of the petitioners, the petitioners shall approach the Senior Superintendent of Police.[Kamini Devi v. 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