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Rajasthan High Court: <\/strong>Pushpendra Singh Bhati J. disposed of the instant petition with a direction to the petitioners to appear before the Station House Officer, Police Station, Feench, Luni, District Jodhpur alongwith appropriate representation regarding their grievance.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Facts<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

The facts of the present case are that petitioner is in live-in relationship with petitioner even when she was married with one. The petitioner 1 alleged in the petition that due to continuous harassment and violence, resulting out of her giving birth to a girl child, she had to make a choice of entering into a live-in relationship to live life with liberty and dignity. The present petition was filed to seek protection, as right to life is a fundamental right enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution of India, and protection of right to life is imbibed in the same, and thus, such fundamental right cannot be done away with, except by due process of law.<\/p>\n

Issues<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

The issues before this Court for consideration are:<\/p>\n

(i) Whether the State ought to intervene in the personal relationships of adult citizens?<\/p>\n

(ii) As to what would prevail, in case there is a conflict between law and morality; and<\/p>\n

(iii) Whether the State, having a duty of protecting its citizens, is having any kind of restrictions, reservations or exception?<\/p>\n

Observations<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

The Court relied on judgment Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India<\/em>, (2018) 10 SCC 1<\/a> wherein it was observed that surrender of one\u2019s autonomy to another must be willful, and their intimacy and privacy is a matter of their choice.<\/p>\n

\u201c64. The right to privacy enables an individual to exercise his or her autonomy, away from the glare of societal expectations. The realisation of the human personality is dependent on the autonomy of an individual. In a liberal democracy, recognition of the individual as an autonomous person is an acknowledgment of the State\u2019s respect for the capacity of the individual to make independent choices.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Court relied on judgment in Shafin Jahan v. Asokan K.M.<\/em> (2018) 16 SCC 368<\/a> wherein it was observed:<\/p>\n

\u201c23. . . . . .The High Court has lost sight of the fact that she is a major, capable of taking her own decisions and is entitled to the right recognised by the Constitution to lead her life exactly as she pleases. Intimacies of marriage, including the choices which individuals make on whether or not to marry and on whom to marry, lie outside the control of the state. Courts as upholders of constitutional freedoms must safeguard these freedoms. The cohesion and stability of our society depend on our syncretic culture.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Court relied on judgment S.S. Ahluwalia v. Union of India<\/em>, (2001) 4 SCC 452<\/a>\u00a0 wherein it was observed that \u201cit is the duty of the State to create a climate where members of the society belonging to different faiths, caste and creed live together and, therefore, the State has a duty to protect their life, liberty, dignity and worth of an individual which should not be jeopardized or endangered.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>The Court thus observed that it is well- settled that it is not in the Court\u2019s domain to intrude upon an individual\u2019s privacy. Any scrutiny or remark upon the so-called morality of an individual\u2019s relationship and blanket statements of condemnation especially in matters where it is not called into question, to begin with, would simply bolster an intrusion upon one\u2019s right to choice and condone acts of unwarranted moral policing by the society at large.<\/p>\n

It was also observed that the sanctity and supremacy of law must be protected at all costs. Even the due process of law through which the fundamental rights of any person are taken away must conform with the principles of justice and fair play and has to be reasonably administered according to the circumstances of the case i.e. there must be a proportionality between the illegality of the act and the right taken away through the due process of law.<\/p>\n

The Court held \u201cthe present petition is disposed of, with a direction to the petitioners to appear before the Station House Officer, Police Station, Feench, Luni, District Jodhpur alongwith appropriate representation regarding their grievance. The Station House Officer, Police Station, Feench, Luni, District Jodhpur shall in turn hear the grievance of the petitioners, and after analyzing the threat perceptions, if necessitated, may pass necessary orders to provide adequate security and protection to the petitioners.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

[Leela v. State of Rajasthan, S.B. Criminal Misc (Pet.) No. 5045\/2021, decided on 15-09-2021]<\/p>\n

\n

Appearances<\/strong><\/p>\n

For Petitioner(s): Mr. Gajendra Panwar<\/p>\n

For Respondent(s): Mr. Arun Kumar<\/p>\n

\n

Arunima Bose, Editorial Assistant has reported this brief.<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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