India, March 28 -- Allahabad high court's recent observation that a married man living in a consensual live-in relationship with an adult is not committing an offence is reportedly a contradiction of one of its own previous observations.

A married man's live-in relationship is not an offence, observed the Allahabad high court on March 25, saying that social morality cannot override court's duty to protect citizens' rights

A Division Bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Tarun Saxena was hearing a plea seeking protection of a live-in couple facing threats from the woman's family, according to a Bar and Bench report.

"There is no offence of the kind where a married man, staying with an adult in a live-in relationship, by consent of the o...