The Rajasthan Human Rights Commission (HRC) issued an order on Wednesday, demanding the state and the Union governments to initiate steps to band the practice of live-in relationships.
"It is imperative to stop the practice of live-in relationships, and it is the responsibility of the state and Central government to prohibit it," ANI quoted the order from Rajasthan HRC as saying.
Human Rights Commission of Rajasthan issues order stating "it is imperative to stop the practice of live-in relationships, and it is the responsibility of the state and Central government to prohibit it." pic.twitter.com/wgu1sX7CJ7
— ANI (@ANI) September 4, 2019
The order from HRC comes weeks after Commission chairperson Prakash Tatia, a retired chief justice of the Jharkhand High Court, had called live-in relationships "social terrorism" and claimed that the status of women who were 'abandoned' after live-in relationships was worse than that of divorced woman.
Seeking a law to regulate live-in relationships, he had said, "“What sort of freedom is this...people start living with someone else, then a third person...this is infecting the society," Indian Express had quoted him as saying.
He had also said that live-in relationships need to be registered like marriages.
In 2017, he had said there was no dignity associated with the women, and children born out of live-in relationships, which was given recognition under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2006, reported PTI.
Rajasthan State Women’s Commission too, in 2017, had said live-in relationship is against "our culture".
