The Allahabad High Court recently dismissed a live-in couple’s plea seeking protection on finding that the first marriage of one of the partners to another man still subsisted in the eyes of law.
Such orders strike at the foundation of a new and modern India where inclusiveness is the basis of the social fabric and where diversity is not only acknowledged, but also celebrated.
Indian society at large does not recognize such relationships, and when they end, the woman is left with no option but to lodge a case against her live-in partner, the Court said.