NAINITAL: The Uttarakhand high court, while hearing a habeas corpus petition earlier this month, held that same-sex couples have the right to live together even if they are not competent to enter into a wedlock.
A single bench of Justice Sharad Kumar Sharma made this observation on June 12 while hearing the habeas corpus petition filed by a woman alleging that her partner — a major with whom she has been in a consensual relationship since 2016 — has been illegally confined by her mother and brother.
Citing Article 21 of the Constitution, which upholds right to life and personal liberty, the judge said: “Intimacy of marriage, including the choice of partner, which an individual makes, on whether or not to marry and whom to marry are the aspects which exclusively lie outside the control of the state or the society. The court as an upholder of the constitutional freedom has to safeguard that such a relationship where there is a choice exclusively vested with a major person, has to be honoured.”
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