<p class="bodytext">While dismissing a petition filed by a runaway couple seeking protection, the Punjab and Haryana High Court said that a live-in-relationship is morally and socially unacceptable</p>.<p class="bodytext">Petitioners Gulza Kumari (19) and Gurwinder Singh (22) in the petition had stated that they were residing together and intended to get married shortly.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They had apprehended danger to their lives from Kumari's parents.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"As a matter of fact, the petitioners in the garb of filing the present petition are seeking seal of approval on their live-in-relationship, which is morally and socially not acceptable and no protection order in the petition can be passed. The petition stands dismissed accordingly," Justice H S Madaan said in his May 11 order.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to petitioner's counsel J S Thakur, Singh and Kumari were living together in Tarn Taran district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said Kumari's parents, who are in Ludhiana, did not approve of their relationship.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The couple could not get married as Kumari's documents, which have details of her age, were in possession of her family, Thakur added.</p>
<p class="bodytext">While dismissing a petition filed by a runaway couple seeking protection, the Punjab and Haryana High Court said that a live-in-relationship is morally and socially unacceptable</p>.<p class="bodytext">Petitioners Gulza Kumari (19) and Gurwinder Singh (22) in the petition had stated that they were residing together and intended to get married shortly.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They had apprehended danger to their lives from Kumari's parents.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"As a matter of fact, the petitioners in the garb of filing the present petition are seeking seal of approval on their live-in-relationship, which is morally and socially not acceptable and no protection order in the petition can be passed. The petition stands dismissed accordingly," Justice H S Madaan said in his May 11 order.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to petitioner's counsel J S Thakur, Singh and Kumari were living together in Tarn Taran district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said Kumari's parents, who are in Ludhiana, did not approve of their relationship.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The couple could not get married as Kumari's documents, which have details of her age, were in possession of her family, Thakur added.</p>