Noting that it was duty bound to monitor the rights of the citizens under threat on account of their sexual orientation, the Allahabad High Court has directed police protection for a same-sex woman couple in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur.
The two women, aged 23 and 22, have been in a live-in relationship for a couple of years and are voluntarily living with each other on account of their sexual orientation, the court said. They are, however, facing resistance from their family members and had approached the High Court seeking directions to their families to not interfere in their relationship.
“The petition highlights the stark reality of society where citizens are facing discrimination at the hands of the society only on account of their sexual orientation despite it being well settled that sexual orientation is innate to human being,” the court said in an order dated January 21.
A division bench of Justices Mahesh Chandra Tripathi and Sanjay Kumar Pachori directed the Senior…