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NEW DELHI, May 7 (TNS): Indian Supreme Court ruled that an adult couple has a right to live together without marriage, Indian media reported on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/em>20-year-old Kerala woman, whose marriage had been annulled, could choose whom she wanted to live with, said apex court.<\/p>\n The top court held that live-in relationships were now even recognized by the Legislature and they had found a place under the provisions of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.<\/p>\n The observations came while the apex court was hearing a plea filed by one Nandakumar against a Kerala High Court order annulling his marriage with Thushara on the ground that he had not attained the legal age of marriage.<\/p>\n Prohibition of Child Marriage Act states that a girl can\u2019t marry before the age of 18, and a boy before 21.<\/p>\n Nandakumar, who had approached the top court, will turn 21 on May 30 this year. The high court had also granted the custody of Thushara to her father after noting that she was not Nandakumar\u2019s \u201clawfully wedded\u201d wife.<\/p>\n A bench of justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said their marriage could not said to be \u201cnull and void\u201d merely because Nandakumar was less than 21 years of age at the time of marriage. \u201cAppellant no 1 as well as Thushara are Hindus.<\/p>\n Such a marriage is not a void marriage under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, and as per the provisions of section 12, which can be attracted in such a case, at the most, the marriage would be a voidable marriage\u2026 \u201cIt is sufficient to note that both appellant no 1 and Thushara are major. Even if they were not competent to enter into wedlock (which position itself is disputed), they have right to live together even outside wedlock,\u201d the bench said.<\/p>\n While setting aside the order of the high court granting custody of woman to her father, the apex court said that \u201cwe make it clear that the freedom of choice would be of Thushara as to with whom she wants to live\u201d.<\/p>\n It also referred to a recent case involving a woman from Kerala, Hadiya, where it had restored her marriage with Shafin Jahan on the ground that it was a marriage between two consenting adults.<\/p>\n Courtesy: Financial Express<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NEW DELHI, May 7 (TNS): Indian Supreme Court ruled that an adult couple has a right to live together without marriage, Indian media reported on Monday. \u00a020-year-old Kerala woman, whose marriage had been annulled, could choose whom she wanted to live with, said apex court. The top court held that live-in relationships were now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64014,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64012\/revisions\/64014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}