Living together a part of right to life, not an offence: SC

Living together a part of right to life, not an offence: SC

Living together a part of right to life, not an offence: SC
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The Supreme Court threw its weight behind live-in relationships on Tuesday, observing that for a man and a woman in love, to live together is part of the right to life, and not a “criminal offence”.“If two people, man and woman, want to live together, who can oppose them? What is the offence they commit here? This happens because of the cultural exchange between people,” a special three-judge bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) K G Balakrishnan and Justices Deepak Verma and B S Chauhan observed.

The court was hearing a batch of petitions filed by actress Khusboo to quash 22 FIRs filed against her by Tamil activist groups and forums for her alleged comments on pre-marital sex in interviews five years ago.“If living together is an offence, then the first complaint should be filed against the Supreme Court, because we have permitted living together,” the court said. It was referring to a 2006 judgment in which the Supreme Court directed the administration and police across the country to protect runaway couples from harassment, and to initiate action against those resorting to violence.

“It is part of right to life to go away with someone you love,” the bench said. The Supreme Court had earlier stayed a Madras High Court order of April 2008, which allowed criminal proceedings against the actress.Khusboo was alleged to have said there was nothing wrong in “sex before marriage”, provided girls were careful about pregnancy and sexually-transmitted diseases. Her detractors argued that the implied advice to the educated male to not expect virginity from modern girls was “offensive” and a source of “public nuisance”.

To an argument that Khusboo’s comments on pre-marital sex would mislead gullible youths and minors, the court said: “The scenario is highly unlikely in this age of the Internet where we do not know what our children are doing or where they are going or what pornography site they are watching.”To this, the lawyer appearing for one of the complainants, Miniammal, a lawyer in Tamil Nadu, responded that “there should be some morality in the comments made by people of prominence like Khusboo, who has a temple in Tamil Nadu where she is worshipped as a goddess”.

“And this is how you revere your goddess, by dragging her to court?” retorted Justice Verma.The bench made it clear that Khusboo’s comments could at best be termed as “personal opinions”, and did not amount to a cognizable offence.But the lawyer persisted that Khusboo’s comments on pre-marital sex would lead to the “spoiling of the entire institution of marriage. Statements like this can result in chaos in the society.” Even as the CJI at this moment responded that people were better off listening to themselves than to others, Justice Verma asked the counsel to point out how many marriages were “spoilt” or how many instances of chaos happened in the past five years because of her comments on pre-marital sex. .

The court said it cannot stop anyone from expressing their opinions before reserving the petitions for final verdict.Besides, the court said, Khusboo (who was present during the day-long hearing) had said “nothing new” about the concept of living together.Justice Chauhan pointed out that even the “ceiling limit” for the construction of temples for twin deities like Radha and Krishna or Ram and Sita were calculated under the consideration that they were “husband and wife”.
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Rajneesh Madhok

 
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Although its up to people what they do, lets not have a copy of damaging Celeb culture we have here in the West, where moral (Or lack of ) bench marks are set by celebrities.
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I really do despair.

Dear Randip Singhji,
Yeah you are absolutely right that the people should decide what is wrong or right. But it is a matter of great concern that India is the developing country and the people have rich values but alas! they are copying the celebrities culture. It is a matter of great concern that why the people are losing moral values day by day and copying the culture of western countries. I hope this is due to the Direct to Home (DTH) facility and the Cable connections provided in not only in cities but in towns and villages those provide soap opera and the people are imitating the culture provided in the telecasted programmes. This is a matter of great concern and the intellectual people should come forward to save our culture and guide the young generation not to copy the celebrities culture for the sake of their health and crime free society. As with the following of the celebrities culture the trend of drug addiction has also been taken the youth in its clutches.
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Rajneesh Madhok

The problem of India is that in 1 India there many India's.On one hand you have extremly
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liberal people living westernised lifestyle in big cities caring about nothing on the another hand we have village's where panchayats issue Death penalties if someone break their caste laws like marrying within caste.

Here are my concerns.

1. The discussion has migrated to discourse on Hindu theology and away from the topic.

The thread has been split and the new thread Morality, Culture and Media in Traditional and Modern India. It can be found at this address http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/hindui...ern-india.html
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In my own experience there are many shades of practice of the various Hindu paths. These range from bathing an idol of Ganesh once a year and giving him a new set of clothes to rigorous practice of meditation on an abstract and indivisible creative and destructive force and all the possibilities between those two extremes. The stories of the Vedas can be taken as history or as philosophical meditations.
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This is not the place to discuss whether there is a more abstract meaning for Krishna or Tulsi, or whether the masses enjoy a literal meaning.
The article that started this thread was about a legal matter that has ramifications for life and culture and so we want to stay focused on that. This is also a new forum created to discuss the law, abuses of the lase, legal questions and advocacy

All jios
I think that it is important for all people to find their soul mate; and, for modern people, who have birth control, etc., it is not at all wrong to share Love with more than one individual in the process of finding that one, special person.
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Anyone would be right to point out that, like in all things, people take this opinion of mine, and carry it too far; and that the 'Celeb Culture' that you deride, deserves your derision!
There's a Happy Middle Ground, though; but then I've lived with five women who weren't my 'wife', and I learned a little more about what sort of person that I might want to marry from every one of them.
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All in all, they agreed with me that it was time to move on when we split up; for, in America, we like to say, "It's sad to belong to someone else, when the right one comes along."

JimRinX ji

I never heard that before now. Where did you hear it?

Narayanjot ji
It's a sad love song from the 1970's, by England Dan and John Ford Coley, see the latter perform it, here:
YouTube- John Ford Coley ~ It's Sad To BelongBetter than Paul Simons '50 Ways to leave your lover' - as it's little less HARSH.
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Us randy, over sexed, Maya dazed Americans - we just can't enough of it!

LOL I am an American and I still can't remember it but will check the tube. The reason could be that I am not one of those randy, over-sexed Americans. Always standing I am on the outside looking in.