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This writ petition has been filed by the petitioners-Smt.
Meenakshi and Vinod Kumar, seeking direction to the police
authorities to provide protection to them.
The petitioners both major alleged to have entered into
marriage on 20.1.17 at Arya Samaj, Rambagh Scheme,
Mahamandir, Jodhpur. In this regard, the petitioners have placed
on record the marriage certificate issued by the Arya Samaj,
Rambagh Scheme, Mahamandir, Jodhpur as Annexure-2.
It is submitted that having come to know about the petitioners''
marriage, the private respondents are bent upon to harm and
harass the petitioners and are threatening of dire consequences.
Thus, the petitioners are under constant threat of violence of their
relatives.
In the matter of '' Lata Singh vs. State of U.P '', reported in
2006 Cr.L.J. 3312, while dealing with a case of harassment by the
parents of the boy and girl, who had entered into inter-caste
marriage, the Hon''ble Supreme Court have issued directions to
the Administration /Police Authorities throughout the country in
the following terms:-
"This is a free and democratic country, and once a person becomes a major he or she can marry whosoever he/she likes. If the parents of the boy or girl do not approve of such inter- caste or inter-religious marriage the maximum they can do is that they can cut off social relations with the son or the daughter, but they cannot give threats or commit or instigate acts of violence and cannot harass the person who undergoes such inter-caste or inter-religious marriage. We, therefore, direct that the administration/police authorities throughout the country will see to it that if any boy or girl who is a major undergoes inter-caste or inter-religious marriage with a woman or man who is a major, the couple are not harassed by any one nor subjected to threats or acts of violence, and any one who gives such threats or harass or commits acts of violence either himself or at his instigation, is taken to task by instituting criminal proceedings by the police against such persons and further stern action is taken against such persons as provided by law."
In view of the directions issued by the Hon''ble Supreme
Court in Lata Singh''s case (supra), the police authorities are under
an obligation to look into the grievances raised and take action, if
any required, in accordance with law. There is no reason to believe
that the grievances of the petitioners shall not be looked into by
the authorities concerned appropriately.
No case for interference by this Court is made out.
The writ petition is dismissed with the observations as
above.