Allahabad HC questions stability of live-in relationship, says 'Can be considered normal only when...'

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PTI, while allowing a bail plea of a person accused of raping his live-in partner, Justice Siddharth noted that “In the majority of cases, breakups take place between the couple. After a breakup, it becomes difficult for the female partner to face society." "The middle-class society does not look upon such separated female as normal.

From social ostracisation to indecent public comments become part of her post-live-in relationship ordeal. Then she somehow tries to get her live-in relationship with the male partner get converted into the relationship of marriage having social sanction," the court said.

The order was delivered last Tuesday and uploaded recently. The court said, "The brutish concept of changing partners in every season cannot be considered to be the hallmark of a stable and healthy society.

The security and stability which the institution of marriage provides to an individual's life cannot be expected from a live-in relationship." “Live-in relationship shall only be considered as normal after the institution of marriage becomes obsolete in this country, like in many of the so-called developed countries where it has become a big problem for them to protect the institution of marriage," it said The counsel for the applicant Adnan submitted that the victim in her statement recorded under section 164 Cr.PC has admitted that she was having a (live-in) relationship with the applicant for one year and had physical relations with consent and got pregnant. Thereafter, the applicant refused to marry her and an FIR was lodged against him on her complaint.

She also alleged that two more persons committed offence of rape against her. According to the ossification test report of the victim, she has been found to be 19