Live-in ties timepass, temporary: Allahabad HC

NT Correspondent

Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court, in the course of dismissing a plea submitted by an interfaith live-in couple seeking police protection, has observed that live-in relationships are more of an "infatuation" without any "stability or sincerity".

While acknowledging that the Supreme Court has upheld the validity of live-in relationships on multiple occasions, the High Court raised concerns regarding the young age of the petitioners and the limited duration they spent cohabiting, suggesting it may not have been a well-thought-out choice.

"... in the span of two months at a tender age of 20-22 years, we cannot expect that the couple would be able to give serious thought to such types of temporary relationships. As mentioned above, it is more of infatuation with the opposite sex without any sincerity," a two-judge bench of Justices Rahul Chaturvedi and Mohd Azhar Husain Idrisi said.