NEW DELHI: In perhaps the first such instance in this city after the historic Delhi high court judgment that gave legal sanctity to same-s*x relationships, a man has approached a local city court claiming that his live-in partner had "cheated'' on him after promising to live with him as "husband and wife.'' The man said he had spent a lot of money on his partner with whom he shared a physical relationship. The petitioner pleaded with the court to lodge an FIR against his partner for cheating and threatening him. The Rohini court is likely to hear the application on September 20.
The applicant's lawyer, Amit Kumar, told the media that the two men had been preparing for the civil services. They were staying in a rented apartment at Mukherjee Nagar in northwest Delhi for the past four years. "It was during this period that the two became close and decided to live together as husband and wife for the rest of their lives. Accordingly, my client spent a lot of money on his partner,'' claimed Kumar.
The applicant claimed that things went awry when his partner said his family was pressuring him to end the relation. "He left for his home in UP in June and did not return. When the applicant called him up, he found out that his partner had married on June 28 and had decided not to pursue further studies. Instead, he took up a teaching job at a Ghaziabad school and was commuting from Meerut to his school every day,'' the petition stated.
On July 2, 2009, the high court had decriminalised homos*xual intercourse between consenting adults. Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was adjudged to violate the fundamental right to life and liberty and even the right to equality guaranteed by the constitution.
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