PRAYAGRAJ, March 30 -- While allowing a petition filed by an interfaith live-in couple seeking protection from the woman's family, the Allahabad High Court said that interfaith live-in relationship is neither prohibited nor an offence under any law.

"The mere fact that the petitioners are living in an interfaith relationship would not deprive them of their fundamental right as envisaged in the Constitution of India, being citizens of India. No discrimination can be made on the basis of caste, creed, sex or religion," the court said.

Justice Vivek Kumar Singh allowed a petition filed by Kajal Prajapati and her Muslim live-in partner who belongs to Sonbhadra. The petitioners had sought direction for the woman's family to not interfere in ...