Bangalore: Former Chief Justice of Punjab
and Haryana High Court and BJP MP Rama Jois today said Indian
scriptures bar premarital sex and Indian society still
consider pre-marital sexual relationship not good.
Jois, also a former Governor, in a statement said "The
oral observations made by one of the judges of the three-judge
bench of the Supreme Court in the context of male and female
having sexual intercourse prior to marriage and question posed
by the learned judge ‘Who says it is bad?’ has given rise to
counter question: Who says it is good".
Quoting from scriptures, he said one of the nine directives
of dhrama prescribed by Mahabharata was "Prajanseveshu
dareshu" one should procure children only under wedlock which
by necessary implication bars pre-marital sexual activity
between man and woman, he said.
"The object and purpose of marriage as declared by the
Dharmasastras was not merely to satisfy the mutual carnal
desire of man and a woman, though it did constitute the basis
of the desire for marriage", he said.
Jois also refers to various Indian scriptures that
upholds fidelity between spouses, mutual trust and discourages
the `discarding attitude` of a spouse to pursue other gains.
-PTI
