Mint Views | Rajasthan’s HRC issues order on live-in relationships
Updated: 05 Sep 2019, 04:08 PM IST
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The Rajasthan Human Rights Commission has directed... moreThe Rajasthan Human Rights Commission has directed the state government to prohibit live-in relationships. The objective being to secure the rights of women who, it says, are treated as “concubines” in such relationships. But the idea of any government regulating our social lives is problematic. Whether it’s a live-in or marriage, the decision to be in any such relationship ought to be a choice for the partners to make, and not for the state to dictate.
