The Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow bench on Wednesday observed that Muslims cannot claim the right to live-in relationship when they are married.
The court said that such a relationship is not permitted under the tenets of Islam.
The observation was made by the Lucknow bench of Justice AR Masoodi and Justice AK Srivastava while hearing the writ petition of Sneha Devi and Mohammad Shadab Khan, residents of Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, who sought protection from police action after the woman’s parents filed a case .
The petitioners had claimed that they were in a live-in relationship but the woman’s family filed an FIR against Khan alleging that he kidnapped their daughter and married her.
However, the court refused to give any relief to petitioners who had sought protection of their lives and liberty, saying they were adults and as per the apex court, they were free to reside together in a live-in relationship.
“Islamic tenets do not allow 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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