Domestic Violence -- Live-In Relationship With Admitted Knowledge of Subsisting Marriage Not 'Relationship in Nature of Marriage' Under Section 2(f) PWDVA -- Protection Not Available to such live in relationship available
Under Section 2(f) of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, a 'relationship in the nature of marriage' requires, inter alia, that both parties be legally qualified to enter into marriage. Applying D. Velusamy v. D. Patchaiammal (2010), where a woman enters a live-in relationship with admitted knowledge of the man's subsisting lawful marriage, this essential condition is absent.
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