The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has ruled that an adult woman has the constitutional right to choose her own partner and live with him, ordering a hostel to hand over custody of an 18-year-old woman to her husband. The bench of Justices Urmila Joshi-Phalke and Nivedita Mehta was hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by the husband, who alleged his wife was being illegally confined at Priyadarshini Mahila Vasatigruha under her father’s…
This story is only covered by news sources that have yet to be evaluated by the independent media monitoring agencies we use to assess the quality and reliability of news outlets on our platform. Learn more here.