Times of India, Bangalore edition dated 1st April 2006
Lesbian couple can live together: Court
By Robin David/TNN
Vadodara: The order of a magistrate court in small town Halol may
have huge implications for the gay movement in India. On March 8,
International Women's Day, A H Parikh allowed a lesbian couple to
live together after they told the court that they were two
consenting adults and that the kidnapping charge against one of them
was fabricated. This was the first time that such a case had come up
in any court in the country.
The magistrate said they were free to settle anywhere they
wished and it was not necessary for them to return to their
families. Sonu Avtar Singh, 21, and Rekha Marwadi, 18, had eloped
from Halol town in the Panchmahals to a village in Punjab on January
1. They were forced to return to Halol under police custody after
Rekha's parents filed a kidnapping complaint against Sonu.
Panchmahals collector Dinesh Brahmbhatt said, "If two adult
women chose to live together, there was no provision in the law to
stop them." Police said they could not even invoke section 377 of
the IPC which punishes "intercourse against the order of nature" as
it required penetration.
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