{"id":245975,"date":"2021-03-23T10:30:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=245975"},"modified":"2021-03-23T10:13:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T04:43:46","slug":"live-in-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2021\/03\/23\/live-in-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"P&#038;H HC | Contractual live-in relationship has no recognition in law; HC terms it \u201cmisuse of process\u201d and against morality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Punjab and Haryana High Court: <\/strong>Arvind Singh Sangwan, J., addressed the instant petition regarding a new concept of contractual Live-In-Relation wherein the petitioners had sought issuance of direction for the protection of their life and liberty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petitioner 1, namely Moyana Khatun was aged about 18 years, whereas, petitioner 2, namely Labh Singh was aged about 19 years and in pursuance to a deed of Live-In-Relationship dated 04-03-2021, which had been executed between the petitioners, wherein, petitioner 1 was referred to as the \u2018Female Partner\u2019 and petitioner 2 was referred to as the \u2018Male Partner\u2019. Certain terms and conditions had been settled in the said deed of live-in-relationship by way of mutual consent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The contents of the deed were such that:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><em>both the parties had agreed that their live-in-relationship was not \u2018Marital Relationship\u2019;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>that the parties will fully cooperate with each other without any dispute and issue and will not claim anything against each other;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>if any of the parties backs out from the aforesaid deed, the other party will have a right to approach a competent Court of law for implementation of the same.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>that the parties are entitled and will be at liberty to terminate this deed any time after giving one month\u2019s notice to other party. <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, it was also stated that on attaining marriageable age the parties were agree to solemnize the marriage. The petitioners contended that the live-in-relationship deed was executed between the parties at Patiala in presence of witnesses though neither the original deed was attached nor names of the witnesses were described; only a typed copy signed as a true copy by the counsel was attached.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reliance was placed on <em>Simran Kaur v. State of Punjab<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/yY812WWG\">2018 SCC OnLine P&amp;H 6710<\/a>, wherein, the petition relating to live-in-relationship couples was disposed of with a direction to the Senior Superintendent of Police to provide protection to the couple.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Counsel for state, DAG Joginder Pal Ratra argued that such deed of live-in-relationship is impermissible in law when the parties had not attained marriageable age under Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006. It also submitted that Section 5 (iii) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 prohibits marriage of a girl below 18 years and boy below 21 years of age and prescribes punishment for two years for contravention of Section 5 (iii) of the Act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was also submitted by the state that Section 26 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, also provides that an agreement in restraint of marriage is a void agreement and therefore, it cannot be enforced as per Section 14 of the Specific Relief Act, 1963. Thus, the Live-In-Relationship agreement set up by petitioners being void agreement could not be accepted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bench opined that the deed being impermissible in law, no benefit could be claimed by the petitioners. Petitioner 2 was held to be incompetent to have a live-in-relationship since he had not attained marriageable age. The Bench held that the petition was without any merit as the terms and conditions of live-in-relationship relied upon, especially stating that it was not a \u2018Marital Relationship\u2019 was nothing but the misuse of the process of law as it could not be morally accepted in society. [Moyna Khatun v. State of Punjab, CRWP-2421-2021, decided on 10-03-2021]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Kamini Sharma, Editorial Assistant has reported this brief.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Appearance before the Court by:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the Petitioner: Adv. Sushil K. Sharma,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For The Respondent: DAG Joginder Pal Ratra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab and Haryana High Court: Arvind Singh Sangwan, J., addressed the instant petition regarding a new concept of contractual Live-In-Relation wherein the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[9292,29785,27214,31855],"class_list":["post-245975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-contract-act","tag-law","tag-live-in-relationship","tag-specific-relief-act"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>P&amp;H HC | Contractual live-in relationship has no recognition in law; 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