{"id":776,"date":"2014-01-06T22:25:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T22:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=776"},"modified":"2014-01-06T22:25:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T22:25:35","slug":"indian-judge-calls-pre-marital-relations-immoral-against-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/indian-judge-calls-pre-marital-relations-immoral-against-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian judge calls pre-marital relations immoral, against religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"India<\/a>An Indian judge has declared premarital sex \u201cimmoral\u201d and against \u201cevery religion\u201d and added that no educated woman should have sex believing that her partner will marry her.
\nSessions court judge Virender Bhat made the comments while finding a 29-year-old Indian man not guilty of raping a woman just because he had promised beforehand to marry her.
\n\u201cWhen a grown up, educated and office-going woman subjects herself to sexual intercourse\u201d she does so \u201cat her own peril,\u201d Bhat was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India.
\nBhat made the statements late last month in a New Delhi court but they were only reported by local media on Monday.
\nPremarital sex remains taboo in many parts of India even as the country undergoes rapid social change after economic reforms in the 1990s opened up the country to the rest of the world.
\nThe comments come after a Delhi judge last year termed live-in relationships immoral and an \u201cinfamous product of Western culture.\u201d
\nBhat was ruling in the case of a woman who filed a complaint of rape against the man, an Indian employee of a multinational company, in May 2011.
\nThe woman alleged that the man, whom she met through a chat website in July 2006, had sex with her on several occasions by promising to marry her.<\/p>\n

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