Supreme Court rejects PIL for registration of live-in relationships with Centre

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a PIL seeking framing of norms for registration of every livein relationship with the Centre and termed it a harebrained ideaA bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud asked the counsel for petitioner lawyer Mamta Rani if she wanted to foster the security of these people or wanted them not to get into livein relationshipsThe counsel replied that the petitioner wanted the relationship to be registered to enhance their social securityWhat does the Centre has to do with registration of livein relationships What kind of harebrained idea is this It is high time this court start imposing cost on petitioners who file these kinds of PILs Dismissed the bench also comprising Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala saidAlso Read JPC probe into Adani issue will bring off BJPs mask Congress Pramod TiwariThe PIL was filed by Rani seeking a direction to the Centre to frame rules for registration of livein relationships as it cited increase in crimes like rape and murder allegedly committed by livein partnersThe plea which referred to the recent killing of Shraddha Walkar allegedly by her livein partner Aaftab Amin Poonawala also sought framing of rules and guidelines for registration of such relationshipsThe PIL said registration of livein relationships would lead to accurate information being available to both the livein partners about each other and also to the government about each of them regarding their marital status criminal history and other relevant detailsBesides the increase in crimes like rape and murder the plea said there has been a huge increase in false rape cases filed by women wherein they claim to be living in livein relationships with the accused and it is always difficult for the courts to find out from the evidence whether the fact of living in livein relationships is proved by the backing of evidenceThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever