The petitioners submitted that they’ve been in a “live-in relationship”.
Chandigarh:
The Punjab and Haryana Excessive court docket has held {that a} man dwelling a “lustful and adulterous life” with a lady with out divorcing his partner can’t be known as a “live-in-relationship” or “relationship” within the nature of marriage.
The only choose bench of Justice Kuldeep Tiwari dismissed the petition of a pair from Punjab who had sought safety of their lives and liberty.
The petitioners submitted that they’ve been in a “live-in relationship” which has brought on grievance to the girl’s relations who’ve threatened to kill them.
Through the listening to, the court docket noticed the girl within the “live-in-relationship” was single whereas the person was married and had been dwelling individually from his spouse resulting from strained relations.
The person within the “live-in-relationship” has two youngsters together with his spouse and so they dwell with their mom.
“With out acquiring any legitimate decree of divorce from his earlier partner and throughout the subsistence of his earlier marriage, the petitioner No.2 (man in live-in relationship) resides a lustful and adulterous life with the petitioner No.1 (lady in live-in relationship), which can represent an offence punishable underneath Sections 494/495 of the IPC, as such a relationship doesn’t fall throughout the phrase of ‘live-in relationship’ or ‘relationship’ within the nature of marriage,” the court docket stated in its order.
The court docket additionally discovered allegations of menace to life as “bald and imprecise.” “Neither any supportive materials has been positioned on file by the petitioners to corroborate their allegations, nor even any single occasion pertaining to the style and mode of alleged threats being prolonged to the petitioners has been wherever disclosed,” the court docket stated.
The court docket additional acknowledged, “On the face of the above, it seems that with a view to keep away from any prison prosecution in case of adultery, the current petition has been instituted. To the judicial thoughts of this Court docket, underneath the guise of invocation of the writ jurisdiction of this Court docket, the hidden intent of the petitioners is simply to obliquely acquire the seal of this Court docket on their conduct.”
“This Court docket finds no concrete floor to grant the requested for aid(s), that are consequently negated. Due to this fact, the moment petition is hereby dismissed,” the court docket stated.
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