The Delhi High Court has said a live-in relationship between consenting adults is akin to marriage and that parents or friends cannot interfere with their choice. The court granted police protection to a couple allegedly facing threats from the woman’s family
The police have recorded the statements of at least three elder sisters of Vaidya who were in regular touch with her and reached here from Ahmednagar to join the police probe
The observations from SC came while hearing a plea of a person accused of rape by a woman, who had been in a live-in relationship with a man for over two years, she had filed an FIR for rape after the man married another woman.
