"Love Recognises No Barriers": Bombay High Court Quotes Maya Angelou, Allows Hindu Girl To Live-In With Muslim Boy
Live LawThe Bombay High Court recently quoted American civil rights activist Maya Angelou while permitting a Hindu girl to continue her 'live-in relationship' with a Muslim boy, observing that love recognises no barriers. A division bench of Justices Bharati Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande in an order passed on December 13, ordered the release of the girl noting that she was an adult and had a right. However, the was insistent in joining the company of the boy and his mother, "despite all odds and objections and the pressure to which she is subjected to, from various factions of the society including her own parents" The judges further noted that the boy at present was 20 years old and thus was not of the 'marriageable' age and therefore, the girl and the boy decided to live in an 'live-in relationship' which would be in the 'nature of marriage' till the boy attains the requisite age. The bench further pointed out that after speaking to the girl, who was placed in the custody of Stree Bhishekari Khikar Kendra a Government Women Centre, at Chembur, Mumbai, she clearly expressed her thoughts that she is ready to live with the boy in a 'live-in relationship' as she is an adult and so is the petitioner and she at this stage do not express her desire to enter into a marital bond.
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