Inter-religion couple’s live- in relationship like marriage can’t be permitted : HC
Lucknow Dismissing a plea filed by a few completely different religions who have been in a live- in relationship, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad excessive court docket noticed that such live- in relationship of the petitioners like marriage couldn’t be permitted by the court docket of regulation. With this statement, the court docket directed to ship the younger lady to the Ladies’s Safety House, Prag Narayan Highway, Lucknow until solemnization of her marriage in accordance with regulation.
The court docket directed the state counsel to make sure the lady’s protected admission within the Ladies’s Safety House, Prag Narayan Highway, Lucknow until solemnization of her marriage in accordance with regulation as per her want. (Pic for illustration)
The order was handed by a division bench of justices Vivek Chaudhary and Narendra Kumar Johari on a petition filed by a few Ayodhya. The petitioners sought directives to quash an FIR lodged in opposition to the youth below sections 363 and 366 of the IPC.
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The petitioners’ counsel submitted that they have been buddies since lengthy and have been main. When the lady expressed her want to marry the youth, her household issued life threats . Due to this fact, she left dwelling and began residing with the youth of her personal free will . At current, the couple was in a live- in relationship which was permissible by regulation. Therefore, the stated FIR was liable to be quashed, the counsel additional submitted.
Opposing the plea, the state counsel contended that each the petitioners belonged to completely different religions. That they had not utilized for conversion of faith in accordance with part 8 and 9 of the UP Prohibition of Illegal Conversion of Faith Act,2021. Due to this fact, since they have been in a relationship in opposition to the provisions of regulation, the FIR couldn’t be quashed.
The court docket stated that admittedly, each the petitioners belonged to completely different religions and had not solemnized their marriage in accordance with regulation, slightly they have been in a reside -in relationship. Part 3(1) of the aforesaid Act,2021 prohibited such live-in relationship which was within the nature of matrimonial bond. Therefore such residing of petitioners in live-in relationship like marriage couldn’t be permitted by the court docket of regulation. In view of the identical, the FIR couldn’t be quashed until they solemnized their marriage in accordance with regulation, the court docket additional noticed, dismissing the plea. Nonetheless, the court docket offered liberty to the petitioners to maneuver an software as per authorized provisions or file a grievance case in the event that they felt any menace to their life or any act which constituted an offence.
Thereafter, on the request of the lady, the court docket directed the state counsel to make sure her protected admission within the Ladies’s Safety House, Prag Narayan Highway, Lucknow until solemnization of her marriage in accordance with regulation as per her want.
