'Islam does not allow it': Allahabad HC says married Muslims cannot claim right to live-in relationship
Live Law, the court also refused to give any relief to petitioners, and directed the investigating officer to escort the girl safely to her parental home and submit a report to the court of her being handed over to her parents. "Islamic tenets do not permit live-in relationships during the subsisting marriage.
The position may be different if the two persons are unmarried and the parties being major choose to lead their lives in a way of their own," reported PTI quoting the bench said. “The constitutional morality and social morality in the matter of marriage institution requires to be balanced failing which social coherence for achieving the object of peace and tranquility in the society would fade and disappear," Live Law quoted the bench as saying.
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