The Gujarat High Court in its order dated March 06, 2023 dismissed a habeas corpus petition where the boyfriend of a married woman approached court to seek her custody.
The woman, though married, was living in with the petitioner, who claimed that she was in illegal custody of her husband. The High Court has dismissed the case with Rs 5,000 cost on the petitioner boyfriend.
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Case:
According to the petitioner, his live-in partner had been married off against her wishes. Soon, she left her matrimonial home and started residing with the petitioner. The petitioner further submitted an agreement of live-in-relationship with the corpus before the court.
The counsel for the petitioner accused the husband of the woman to have illegally detained her in his custody. The petitioner prayed before the court to direct police authority to handover the custody of the woman from the husband to the petitioner.
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Arguments by State
The counsel appearing for the State argued that petitioner has no locus standi because even if the corpus is in custody of her husband, it cannot be said that corpus is in illegal custody of her husband.
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Gujarat High Court
After the perusal of the materials on record, a division bench of Justice Vipul M. Pancholi and Justice Hemant M. Prachchhak held that custody of corpus with her husband cannot be termed as illegal and the petitioner has no locus to file the present petition. The Court thus observed:
It is not in dispute that till today, the marriage of the petitioner is not solemnized with the respondent No.4 (corpus). At the same time, divorce has not taken place between respondent No.4 (corpus) and respondent no. 5 (husband).
We are, therefore, of the view that custody of respondent No.4 with respondent No.5 cannot be termed as illegal custody as alleged by the petitioner and the petitioner has no locus to file the present petition on the basis of the so-called live-in-relationship agreement.
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Costs Imposed
The High Court also imposed costs on the boyfriend, thereby, dismissing his petition. The Court concluded:
In the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the present case, we are not inclined to entertain the present petition. Accordingly, this petition is dismissed with cost of Rs.5,000/-. The petitioner shall deposit Rs.5,000/- (Rupees Five Thousand Only) with the Gujarat State Legal Services Authority within a period of six weeks from today.
Adultery has been decriminalised in 2018 by Supreme Court of India.
VFMI TAKE:
- We believe no human should be kept trapped in a relationship he/she does not want to continue in
- However, such liberties are only progressive when the human is a woman; if genders are reversed the husband has no such exit from a marriage
- The root cause of most false matrimonial cases by wives is being married off to men against their wishes
- Ultimately, these women strike back with multiple cases not just to exit that marriage, but also leave with alimony and settle down with the man of her choice
- Women rights activists have ended up pushing governments to make completely one sided laws, where wives can leave whenever they wish to, however, innocent husbands bear the brunt of the woman’s past of present ‘love’
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