Mehta: "Implicit in seeking to privilege the... ... Sabarimala Reference : Live Updates From Supreme Court 9-Judge Bench [Day 2]

Mehta: "Implicit in seeking to privilege the fidelity of women in a marriage, is the assumption that a woman contracts away her sexual agency when entering a marriage. That a woman, by marriage, consents in advance to sexual relations with her husband or to refrain from sexual relations outside marriage without the permission of her husband is offensive to liberty and dignity"- this is followed in sabarimala, liberty and dignity of women, we barter or mortage our choice of having sexual relationship with someone else except husband or wife-this is the finding, that is the law declared

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