Rajasthan Human Rights Chief Calls Live-in Relationship 'Social Terrorism'
If you go by what a former chief justice of the Jharkhand High Court and the current chief of Rajasthan Human Rights Commission, Justice Prakash Tatia, live-in relationships are evil! But how? According to the former jurist, it is so bad that he called it social terrorism.
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According to him the status of women ¡®abandoned¡¯ from a live-in relationship was ¡®worse than divorced women¡¯.
¡°What sort of freedom is this¡without notice (people) start living in with someone else, then a third person¡this is infecting the society,¡± Justice Tatia was quoted as saying by The Indian Express.
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He also called for a law to regulate live-in relationships, by way of registrations like in the case of marriage.
¡°Two consenting adults don¡¯t have the right to end the dignity of the entire society¡live-in relationships need to be registered like a marriage¡.terminating the marriage also should go through a legal process,¡± he added.
This is the second such regressive comment to come from a person holding an office in Rajasthan.
Earlier this month, Rajasthan State Women¡¯s Commission had announced that it will launch a campaign against live-in relation as it is ¡°against our culture¡±.
¡°It is the women who suffer most when such a relationship ends. There is no provision to help such women because live-in relations are against our culture,¡± Suman Sharma, the chief of the women's body said.
