'Cultural shock': Madras HC on live-in relationships; what it said on women's status

CHENNAI: Expressing interest implicit live-in relationships ‘happening everywhere’ and calling it a ‘cultural shock’, Madras precocious court said women successful specified relationships ought to beryllium protected by granting the presumption of a wife.“Live-in relationships are a taste daze to Indian society, but they are happening wide everywhere. The girls presume that they are modern and opt to unrecorded successful relationships. But aft immoderate time, erstwhile they realise that the narration is not granting immoderate extortion arsenic granted nether marriage,” said Justice S Srimathy successful a caller ruling.The justice added that successful a live-in relationship, women ought to beryllium protected by granting the presumption of wife, truthful that women successful a live-in relationship, adjacent if it is nether turbulence, whitethorn beryllium provided with rights arsenic a wife.Observing that determination was perfectly nary ineligible extortion for women entering live-in relationships, the justice said a conception of women was falling prey to the vulnerability of the concept. “They besides look intelligence trauma owed to live-in relationships,” she added.The tribunal made the observations portion dismissing an anticipatory bail exertion moved by a antheral who was charged with cheating a pistillate aft promising to wed her.

During the hearing, the antheral claimed that helium near the miss due to the fact that her ‘character was not good’.“The boys abruptly would instrumentality a basal accusing the quality of the girls. While, successful a live-in relationship, the boys would presume themselves to beryllium modern, they slam the girls connected their quality for having a live-in relationship,” the justice said.“If matrimony is not possible, past the men ought to look the wrath of ineligible provisions,” said the judge.Now, the lone conception that grants extortion to women is nether Section 69 (Fraudulently making a committedness to wed without immoderate volition of fulfilling the aforesaid to person intersexual intercourse with woman) of BNS, and the men ought to look the wrath of Section 69 of BNS, the tribunal said.