{"id":15115,"date":"2024-03-23T12:50:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T12:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/crcnew\/?p=15115"},"modified":"2024-04-30T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T12:52:00","slug":"constitutional-rights-need-not-always-be-enforced-mp-high-court-in-a-teen-live-in-couples-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/child-rights-clinic\/constitutional-rights-need-not-always-be-enforced-mp-high-court-in-a-teen-live-in-couples-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Rights Need Not Always Be Enforced: MP High Court in a Teen Live-In Couple&#8217;s Case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Abhinandan Adhikari<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Madhya Pradesh High Court has observed that while \u201ccertain rights have been conferred by the constitution, it is not necessary to enjoy and enforce them.\u201d Justice Subodh Abhyankar made the remarks while granting protection to a 19-year-old couple in a live-in relationship. He also expressed concern over their decision to live together against the wishes of their parents. The teenage couple moved the court seeking protection, stating that they had a threat from the girl\u2019s family. Hearing the petition, Justice Abhyankar said, \u201cthis court must record its concern on the choices the youngsters are making these days.\u201d The Court noted that \u201cIndia is not a country where the state provides any allowance to the unemployed and the uneducated ones. Thus, if you are not dependent on your parents, you have to earn your own and your partner\u2019s livelihood and this would naturally obviate the possibility of going to school or college. If you get into this struggle of life at an early age by choice, not only your chances of enjoying the other opportunities of life are drastically affected, but your acceptance in society is also reduced.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/law\/constitutional-rights-need-not-always-be-enforced-mp-hc-in-a-teen-live-in-couples-case\">Click Here to Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abhinandan Adhikari The Madhya Pradesh High Court has observed that while \u201ccertain rights have been conferred by the constitution, it is not necessary to enjoy and enforce them.\u201d Justice Subodh Abhyankar made the remarks while granting protection to a 19-year-old couple in a live-in relationship. He also expressed concern over their decision to live together against the wishes of their parents. The teenage couple moved the court seeking protection, stating that they had a threat from the girl\u2019s family. Hearing the petition, Justice Abhyankar said, \u201cthis court must record its concern on the choices the youngsters are making these days.\u201d The Court noted that \u201cIndia is not a country where the state provides any allowance to the unemployed and the uneducated ones. Thus, if you are not dependent on your parents, you have to earn your own and your partner\u2019s livelihood and this would naturally obviate the possibility of going to school or college. If you get into this struggle of life at an early age by choice, not only your chances of enjoying the other opportunities of life are drastically affected, but your acceptance in society is also reduced.\u201d Click Here to Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/child-rights-clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/child-rights-clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/child-rights-clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/child-rights-clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/child-rights-clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/child-rights-clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15117,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/child-rights-clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15115\/revisions\/15117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/child-rights-clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/child-rights-clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/child-rights-clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/child-rights-clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}