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What are Conjugal rights?

January 25, 2022
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In news- The Supreme Court is expected to begin hearing a fresh challenge to the provision allowing restitution of conjugal rights under Hindu personal laws.

About Conjugal rights-

    • Conjugal rights are rights created by marriage, i.e. right of the husband or the wife to the society of the other spouse. 
    • Conjugal Rights also mean the same when the couple is married they have certain matrimonial rights which should be performed by both the spouses.
    • The law recognises these rights— both in personal laws dealing with marriage, divorce etc, and in criminal law requiring payment of maintenance and alimony to a spouse.
  • Conjugal Rights includes:
  1. Living together: The spouses or the married couple should live together
  2. Marital intercourse: The spouses or the married couple have rights and duties together with each other and have physical or sexual relationships.
  3. Comfort to each other: The spouses should give comfort to each other like; emotional and mental comfort.
  4. Matrimonial Obligation: The married couple is supposed to share the responsibility of the households as well. 
  • Provisions of restitution of conjugal rights like Section 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act and Section 22 of the Special Marriage Act empower a husband or a wife to move the local district court, complaining that the other partner has “withdrawn” from the marriage without a “reasonable cause”. 
  • The petition gives the court the authority to order the “withdrawn” spouse to return to the matrimonial home. 
  • Order 21 Rule 32 of the Civil Procedure Code allows the court to attach the property of the “errant” spouse if he or she does not comply with its order to return.
  • The meaning and extent of key words in the provisions like “withdrawn” or “reasonable cause” are ambiguous. 
  • The law is being challenged now on the main grounds that it violates the fundamental Right to privacy. 
  • The concern is that with marital rape not an offence, the provisions of restitution of conjugal rights, when aimed at a woman, takes away her bodily autonomy and forces her to stay with her husband. If a woman does not comply to return to her husband, the court could even attach her property.

Previous Court judgments on it-

  • In one of the early judgments in the 1960s, the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the Tirath Kaur case, upheld restitution of conjugal rights, noting that “a wife’s first duty to her husband is to submit herself obediently to his authority and to remain under his roof and protection”.
  • In 1984, the Supreme Court had upheld Section 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act in the case of Saroj Rani v Sudarshan Kumar Chadha, holding that the provision “serves a social purpose as an aid to the prevention of break-up of marriage”.
  • The Madhya Pradesh High Court in the Vibha Shrivastava case, busted the ‘orthodox concept of the Hindu wife as Dharmpatni, Ardhangini’, and said that the wife is a partner in marriage with equal status and equal rights with the husband.
  • In the well-known case of actor Sareetha, the Andhra Pradesh High Court said that, “sexual cohabitation is an inseparable ingredient of a decree for restitution of conjugal rights”.
  • The fight against marital rape and restitution of conjugal rights has gained a new lease of life with the Supreme Court’s nine-judge Bench upholding privacy as a “constitutionally protected right” which gives a person complete authority to decide one’s matters of personal intimacies, sanctity of family life, the home, sexual orientation, etc.
  • The Supreme Court, in its recent Joseph Shine judgment, concluded that the State cannot exercise authority in a person’s private affairs.

 

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Source: The Hindu
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