Jayalal. I have to check for the judgement on the subject issue.
( Note : first you please confirm whether the relation is only for intercouse when ever they want or to live together?)
In the given issue, the first one can be defined as live in relation and there is no punishment for. The person under this relation can be protected under I" RIGHT TO LIVE" ndian Constitution ( as per recent Supreme Court Decision in Kushboo Case) The second one attracts punishbel offence as per Indian Penal Code. For your reference I incorporate the law positon here.
A person commits bigamy when he/she:
-
has a husband or wife living,
-
marries in any case in which such marriage is void,
-
by reason of its taking place during the life of such husband or wife.
There are certain Exceptions:
-
when the first marriage has been declared void by the Court of competent jurisdiction.
-
When any of the person has been absent or not heard of continually for a space of seven years.
-
The party marrying must inform the person with whom he or she marries of the above fact.
It is not applicable to Mohammedan males, who are allowed to keep more than one wife, but applies to Mohammedan females, Hindus, Christians, and Parsis of either s*x. Divorce dissolves a valid marriage, and the parties obtaining such dissolution can remarry. Good faith and mistake of law are no defences to a charge of bigamy.
Punishment
Whoever commits bigamy shall be punished with imprisonment, which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
The female who is living with a married man is called concubine..
The other word ADULTERY is an officen. Pl check the below:
LAW OF ADULTERY AS IT STANDS IN
INDIA
In India the law of adultery is punishable under section 497 of the IPC, but originally the framers of the code did not make adultery an offence punishable under the Code, it was the Second law commission which after giving mature consideration to the subject, came to the conclusion that it was not advisable to exclude this offence from the Code.
Adultery figures in the penal law of many nations and some of the most celebrated English Lawyers have considered its omission from the English Law as a defect.
Section 497 provides: Whoever has s*xual intercourse with a person who is and whom he known or has reason to believe to be the wife of another man, without the consent or connivance of that man, such s*xual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape, is guilty of the offence of adultery, and shall be punished with imprisonment of either descripttion for a term which may extend to five years or with fine, or with both. In such a case the wife shall not be punishable as an abettor.
The law commissioners have limited the cognizance of this offence to adultery committed with a married woman, and the male offender alone has been made liable to punishment.
In the present situation , as per supreme court recent judgement confirming about live in relation is not an offence, the unmarried person may say it is live in relation. Now a days it is difficulty to define right and wrong.
If I get any judgement I will update you.