Uttarakhand: On registration of live-in relationships in UCC, HC said- living shamelessly without marriage, how is it a violation of privacy
The Nainital High Court heard a petition challenging the mandatory registration of live-in relationships in Uttarakhand’s UCC. During the hearing, it commented that if you are living together shamelessly without marriage, then how is there a violation of privacy. It said that even the state government has not said that you do not live together.
The advocate of Jai Tripathi of Dehradun, who filed the petition, had argued that by making mandatory provision for registration of such relationships, the state government is institutionalizing gossip. Citing the Supreme Court’s decision of 2017, the petitioner argued that privacy is being violated by mandatory registration of live-in.
During the hearing on Monday, a division bench of Chief Justice G. Narender and Justice Alok Mehra said that the UCC is asking to register for such a relationship. ‘What is the secret? You both are living together, your neighbor knows, society knows and the world knows. Then where is the privacy you are talking about? If two people are living together shamelessly without marriage, then how and where did privacy get violated.
The petitioner said that a youth from Almora was murdered because of inter-religious live-in relationship. The division bench has linked this petition with other petitions and fixed the date of April 1 for the next hearing.
