Jaipur (Rajasthan): The Rajasthan High Court has recently issued an order terming the live-in relationship between a man and a married woman "illicit". In the order issued on August 12, the single-judge bench of Justice Satish Kumar Sharma also denied the petitioners' request for police protection, who had said she was a victim of domestic violence after which she left her husband's house.
The plea was filed by a 30-year-old married woman and a 27-year-old man from Jhunjhunu district in Rajasthan. During the hearing, the counsel for the petitioners submitted that both the petitioners are adults and are consensually in a live-in relationship. The petition said the woman is married but has been living separately because of physical abuse by her husband.
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"It is clear from examining all the documents of both sides that petitioner number 1 is already married. She has not got a divorce but despite that, she is staying with petitioner number 2 in a live-in relationship. In such a scenario, the live-in relationship between the two comes under the category of an illicit relationship," says the order by the court.
While passing the order, Justice Sharma also cited a recent order of the Allahabad High Court, wherein it had rejected the request for police protection in a similar case.
(ANI)
