The Punjab and Haryana High Court has said a live-in-relationship is morally and socially unacceptable while dismissing a petition filed by a runaway couple seeking protection.
19-year-old Gulza Kumari and 22-year-old Gurwinder Singh had stated in their petition that they were residing together and intended to get married shortly.
They claimed danger to their lives from Kumari's parents.
"As a matter of fact, the petitioners in the garb of filing the present petition are seeking seal of approval on their live-in-relationship, which is morally and socially not acceptable and no protection order in the petition can be passed," the court said in a May 11 order.