{"id":8889,"date":"2010-03-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/03\/25\/indian-supreme-court-de-criminalizes-co-habitation\/"},"modified":"2010-03-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T12:00:00","slug":"indian-supreme-court-de-criminalizes-co-habitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/03\/25\/indian-supreme-court-de-criminalizes-co-habitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Supreme Court De-Criminalizes Co-Habitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/asia\/article7074875.ece\">www.timesonline.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 25, 2010: India&#8217;s Supreme Court ruled yesterday that unmarried couples have the right to live together after hearing a case involving a Tamil actress accused of corrupting young minds by promoting premarital sex.<\/p>\n<p>The judges pointed out that even the Hindu Gods, Lord Krishna and Radha, were co-habiting lovers rather than man and wife. &#8220;When two adult people want to live together, what is the offence?&#8221; they said. <\/p>\n<p>It is unlikely, however, to change habits among most Indians, who rarely indulge in premarital sex, let alone cohabit with lovers, and usually have their spouses chosen by their parents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.timesonline.co.uk NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 25, 2010: India&#8217;s Supreme Court ruled yesterday that unmarried couples have the right to,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}