India, March 31 -- The Allahabad High Court has held that an interfaith live-in relationship is neither prohibited nor an offence under any law, while granting protection to a couple facing threats from the woman's family.

Allowing a petition filed by Kajal Prajapati and her Muslim partner from Sonbhadra, Justice Vivek Kumar Singh observed that merely being in an interfaith relationship does not deprive individuals of their fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution. "No discrimination can be made on the basis of caste, creed, sex or religion," the court said. The couple had approached the court seeking protection from the woman's family, claiming that their pleas to police had gone unheeded.

The state Government's counsel inf...