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4 years ago

I'm 19 years old and I want to leave my home and my family because they all torture me.

Kishan Dutt Kalaskar

Responded 4 years ago

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A.Dear Sir/Madam,
You are at liberty to leave your own life as per following judgment.
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Woman, 20, Free To Live With 'Underage' Husband, Rules Supreme Court
An adult couple can be in a live-in relationship even if the man isn't 21 years, the legal age for marriage, the Supreme Court has ruled, telling 20-year-old Thushara that she was free to decide who she wanted to live with.

The high court of Kerala had last year annulled her marriage and sent her back to her father on grounds that the Nandakumar wasn't 21 when they married in April last year.

The Supreme Court also said the high court couldn't have cancelled their marriage on its own under the marriage law, relying on the top court's verdict that allowed a 24-year-old young woman from Kerala, Hadiya, to go with her husband.
In this case, Thushara's father had accused Nandakumar of kidnapping his daughter and got an order from the high court to cancel her marriage with Nandakumar, pointing that he was only 20 years when he married his daughter. The high court had restored the women to her father.

But the Supreme Court ruled that it was sufficient to note that Thushara and Nandakumar were adults.
"Even if they were not competent to enter into wedlock (which position itself is disputed), they have right to live together even outside wedlock," a bench of Justices AK Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said.

The top court noted that the legislature had also recognised "live-in relationship" which has been covered under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005.

"It needs no special emphasis to state that attaining the age of majority in an individual's life has its own significance," the court ruled, elaborating that adults were entitled to make their choices.

"The courts cannot, as long as the choice remains, assume the role of parens patriae (a Latin term that literally translates to parent of the nation)," the judges said. In legalese, it is the doctrine that grants the state its power to protect people who are legally unable to act on their own behalf. Like minors.
It also cited the Hadiya verdict that concluded the court could not assume the "role of a super guardian" for adults.


Hadiya's marriage to a Muslim man, Shafin Jahan, was annulled by the Kerala High Court last year after her father alleged that she had been brainwashed and forced to convert. The father's version was cited by right wing groups to label it as "love jihad", a term used by them to accuse Muslim men of trapping and marrying Hindu women to recruit them for terror.


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Shreyash Mohta

Responded 4 years ago

A.You are just 19 kid.
Talk to your family and settle the problem rather than thinking about leaving your house.
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Anonymous

Replied 4 years ago

But they do not want to settle down the things whenever I ask my father to talk they said me he do not want to talk and this all was going from 3-4 years I am a girl and they do not give me rights to leave with freedom

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Shreyash Mohta

Replied 4 years ago

I understand that there can be certain restrictions and limitations imposed by the family which does not sooth the new generation but that does not mean that you leave your home and just run away somewhere. It is easier said than done.
Sit with them try to explain them and if they still do not listen maybe go the police station and file a general diary against them and probably that will help them sit and talk to you. But definitely leaving the family and the house is not a great option.
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Rameshwar Dadhe

Responded 4 years ago

A.I request to you please don't take such action. Because whatever you may be problem propound before parents. U should try it
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