However, the police had claimed that it had intervened in the matter right from the start and that the other woman - a Kozhikode native – had given in writing that she was leaving with her parents willingly. She had alleged, in her video posts on social media, that not only has her friend’s family taken her away by force, but the police also have not done anything to bring her back. The petitioner - a native of Ernakulam - had initially taken to social media to draw attention to her same-sex relationship with a schoolmate, their families’ opposition to the same and the subsequent taking away of her partner, allegedly by force, by the latter’s parents. As both women were adults and wanted to live together, the court allowed their plea. The court initially asked the police to produce the Kozhikode native before it and when she appeared before the Bench, she said she wanted to live with the petitioner.
The court allowed the women to live together after one of them moved a habeas corpus petition seeking directions to the police to produce her partner - a Kozhikode native - who had been allegedly taken away by force by her parents from the petitioner’s home. The Kerala High Court on Tuesday reunited a lesbian-couple which had been separated by their parents who did not approve of the relationship.
