New Delhi: Sympathizing with women whose live-in partners have walked out of the relationship. Supreme Court Said on Monday that the courts cannot do much as ending a consensual relationship is not a crime.Hearing the plea of ​​a woman who was in a live-in relationship for 15 years but whose partner married someone else despite having a child together, a bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan said it could not accept her plea for criminal charges of sexual assault and exploitation against him as it was a consensual relationship.“There was consensual sex and a child was born. Once that goes out, it’s not a criminal offense.” When the relationship was consensual then where is the question of crime?” The bench said.The court said that there is no legal obligation in such a relationship and people should be careful of the uncertainties of a live-in relationship.The bench told her lawyer, “Why did she go and stay with him before marriage? They could have got married. Now she is talking about sexual harassment.” The woman’s lawyer said she was an 18-year-old widow when she came in contact with the man and was forced to have physical relations on the false promise of marriage. He told the bench that the man had married four times.Refusing to go into her alleged misdeeds, the bench said, “We can only sympathize with your client; she was fooled or something. She eloped with him, had a child and lived with him for 15 years.”The bench said that she can seek maintenance from the man for her eight-year-old child as he is born out of the same relationship. As her counsel urged the court that mediation could be opted for getting maintenance, the bench issued notice on that limited issue.