{"id":241035,"date":"2020-12-21T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T12:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=241035"},"modified":"2020-12-25T11:12:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T05:42:30","slug":"ph-hc-merely-because-two-consenting-adults-get-married-to-each-other-against-wishes-of-their-family-members-they-cannot-be-deprived-of-fundamental-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/12\/21\/ph-hc-merely-because-two-consenting-adults-get-married-to-each-other-against-wishes-of-their-family-members-they-cannot-be-deprived-of-fundamental-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"P&#038;H HC | Merely because two consenting adults get married to each other against wishes of their family members, they cannot be deprived of fundamental rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Punjab and Haryana High Court:\u00a0<\/strong>Alka Sarin, J., while addressing the present matter made an observation that:<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The alleged illegality of the marriage of the petitioners having been solemnized without the consent of the first wife is not to be gone into in the present proceedings which are only regarding providing of protection to the petitioners.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the instant case, petitioners were both Muslim. Petitioners solemnized their marriage as per Muslim rites and rituals and a translated copy of the Nikahnama has been attached.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marriage was solemnized against the wishes of respondents 4 to 7 who are the relatives of petitioner 2.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petitioners Counsel submitted that the petitioners apprehended danger to their life at the hands of respondent 4 to 7.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Counsel for the petitioners submitted that a Muslim boy or Muslim girl who has attained puberty is at liberty to marry anyone he or she likes and the guardian has no right to interfere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bench noted that the girl s aged more than 18 years in the instant case. In the decision of <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"><em>Yunus Khan v. State of Haryana,<\/em>\u00a0 [2014(3) RCR (Criminal) 518] it was observed that the <\/span><em><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">marriage of a Muslim girl is governed by the personal law of Muslims. <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Article 195 from the book Principles of Mohammedan Law by Sir Dinshah Fardunji Mulla has also been reproduced in the said decision which article reads as under :<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201c195. Capacity for marriage &#8211; (1) Every Mahomedan of sound mind, who has attained puberty, may enter into a contract of marriage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>(2) Lunatics and minors who have not attained puberty may be validly contracted in marriage by their respective guardians.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>(3) A marriage of a Mahomedan who is sound mind and has attained puberty, is void, if it is brought about without his consent.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Explanation &#8211; Puberty is presumed, in the absence of evidence, on completion of the age of fifteen years.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Court held that both the petitioners in the instant were of marriageable age as envisaged by Muslim Law. The issue in hand was not the validity of the marriage but the fact that the petitioners were seeking protection of life and liberty as envisaged under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bench held that:<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court cannot shut its eyes to the fact that the apprehension of the petitioners needs to be addressed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Merely because the petitioners have got married against the wishes of their family members they cannot possibly be deprived of the fundamental rights as envisaged in the Constitution of India.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In view of the above discussion, Court disposed of the petition with a direction to Superintendent of Police to take the necessary action as per law.[Jakar v. State of Haryana,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/irxIJg9S\"><b>2020 SCC OnLine P&amp;H 2266<\/b><\/a>, decided on 16-12-2020]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Advocates who appeared before the Court:<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Vishal Garg Narwana, Advocate, for the petitioners.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Naveen Singh Panwar, DAG, Haryana.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Vipul Aggarwal, Advocate for respondent 4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sunita Gupta, Advocate for Warisa (first wife of petitioner 1)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab and Haryana High Court:\u00a0Alka Sarin, J., while addressing the present matter made an observation that: The alleged illegality of the marriage <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[35234,3268,29785,31838,29244],"class_list":["post-241035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-adult","tag-Fundamental_Rights","tag-law","tag-muslim-law","tag-protection"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>P&amp;H HC | Merely because two consenting adults get married to each other against wishes of their family members, they cannot be deprived of fundamental rights | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/12\/21\/ph-hc-merely-because-two-consenting-adults-get-married-to-each-other-against-wishes-of-their-family-members-they-cannot-be-deprived-of-fundamental-rights\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"P&amp;H HC | Merely because two consenting adults get married to each other against wishes of their family members, they cannot be deprived of fundamental rights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Punjab and Haryana High Court:\u00a0Alka Sarin, J., while addressing the present matter made an observation that: The alleged illegality of the marriage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/12\/21\/ph-hc-merely-because-two-consenting-adults-get-married-to-each-other-against-wishes-of-their-family-members-they-cannot-be-deprived-of-fundamental-rights\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SCC Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-12-21T12:30:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-12-25T05:42:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/panjab_and_hariyana_high_court.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1330\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"887\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bhumika Indulia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bhumika Indulia\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/12\/21\/ph-hc-merely-because-two-consenting-adults-get-married-to-each-other-against-wishes-of-their-family-members-they-cannot-be-deprived-of-fundamental-rights\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/12\/21\/ph-hc-merely-because-two-consenting-adults-get-married-to-each-other-against-wishes-of-their-family-members-they-cannot-be-deprived-of-fundamental-rights\/\",\"name\":\"P&H HC | Merely because two consenting adults get married to each other against wishes of their family members, they cannot be deprived of fundamental rights | SCC Times\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-21T12:30:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-12-25T05:42:30+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/12\/21\/ph-hc-merely-because-two-consenting-adults-get-married-to-each-other-against-wishes-of-their-family-members-they-cannot-be-deprived-of-fundamental-rights\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/12\/21\/ph-hc-merely-because-two-consenting-adults-get-married-to-each-other-against-wishes-of-their-family-members-they-cannot-be-deprived-of-fundamental-rights\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/12\/21\/ph-hc-merely-because-two-consenting-adults-get-married-to-each-other-against-wishes-of-their-family-members-they-cannot-be-deprived-of-fundamental-rights\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"P&#038;H HC | Merely because two consenting adults get married to each other against wishes of their family members, they cannot be deprived of fundamental rights\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"SCC Times\",\"description\":\"Bringing you the Best Analytical Legal News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a\",\"name\":\"Bhumika Indulia\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Me-150x150.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Me-150x150.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Bhumika Indulia\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/author\/editor_1\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"P&H HC | Merely because two consenting adults get married to each other against wishes of their family members, they cannot be deprived of fundamental rights | SCC Times","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/12\/21\/ph-hc-merely-because-two-consenting-adults-get-married-to-each-other-against-wishes-of-their-family-members-they-cannot-be-deprived-of-fundamental-rights\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"P&H HC | Merely because two consenting adults get married to each other against wishes of their family members, they cannot be deprived of fundamental rights","og_description":"Punjab and Haryana High Court:\u00a0Alka Sarin, J., while addressing the present matter made an observation that: The alleged illegality of the marriage","og_url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/12\/21\/ph-hc-merely-because-two-consenting-adults-get-married-to-each-other-against-wishes-of-their-family-members-they-cannot-be-deprived-of-fundamental-rights\/","og_site_name":"SCC Times","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/","article_published_time":"2020-12-21T12:30:14+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-12-25T05:42:30+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1330,"height":887,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/panjab_and_hariyana_high_court.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Bhumika Indulia","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Bhumika Indulia","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/12\/21\/ph-hc-merely-because-two-consenting-adults-get-married-to-each-other-against-wishes-of-their-family-members-they-cannot-be-deprived-of-fundamental-rights\/","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/12\/21\/ph-hc-merely-because-two-consenting-adults-get-married-to-each-other-against-wishes-of-their-family-members-they-cannot-be-deprived-of-fundamental-rights\/","name":"P&H HC | Merely because two consenting adults get married to each other against wishes of their family members, they cannot be deprived of fundamental rights | SCC Times","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-12-21T12:30:14+00:00","dateModified":"2020-12-25T05:42:30+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/12\/21\/ph-hc-merely-because-two-consenting-adults-get-married-to-each-other-against-wishes-of-their-family-members-they-cannot-be-deprived-of-fundamental-rights\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/12\/21\/ph-hc-merely-because-two-consenting-adults-get-married-to-each-other-against-wishes-of-their-family-members-they-cannot-be-deprived-of-fundamental-rights\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/12\/21\/ph-hc-merely-because-two-consenting-adults-get-married-to-each-other-against-wishes-of-their-family-members-they-cannot-be-deprived-of-fundamental-rights\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"P&#038;H HC | Merely because two consenting adults get married to each other against wishes of their family members, they cannot be deprived of fundamental rights"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/","name":"SCC Times","description":"Bringing you the Best Analytical Legal News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a","name":"Bhumika Indulia","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Me-150x150.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Me-150x150.jpg","caption":"Bhumika Indulia"},"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/author\/editor_1\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":269048,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/06\/27\/muslim-girl-can-marry-person-of-choice-after-15-years-age-muslim-personal-law-punjab-harayana-high-court-legal-updates-research-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":241035,"position":0},"title":"Punjab &#038; Haryana High Court| Muslim girl over 15 years of age competent to marry person of choice as per the Muslim law","author":"Editor","date":"June 27, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Punjab and Haryana High Court: A writ petition was filed seeking the relief of protection of life and liberty at the hands of family members after the petitioners got married against their will. Considering the competency of the petitioners to enter into a valid contract of marriage and addressing the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":245692,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2021\/03\/17\/muslim-woman\/","url_meta":{"origin":241035,"position":1},"title":"P&#038;H HC | Muslim woman and Hindu man marries as per Hindu rites; HC holds the marriage is invalid","author":"Editor","date":"March 17, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Punjab and Haryana High Court: Arun Kumar Tyagi, J., addressed the instant petition, whereby an inter-caste couple had approached the Court for seeking protection of their life and liberty. In the present case, petitioner 1, an 18 years old Muslim woman, performed marriage with petitioner 2, 25 years old Hindu\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":243730,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2021\/02\/12\/ph-hc-muslim-girl-of-17-years-of-age-is-competent-to-enter-into-a-contract-of-marriage-with-a-person-of-her-choice-hc-grants-protection-to-couple\/","url_meta":{"origin":241035,"position":2},"title":"P&#038;H HC | \u201cMuslim girl of 17 years of age is competent to enter into a contract of marriage with a person of her choice\u201d HC grants protection to couple","author":"Editor","date":"February 12, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Punjab and Haryana High Court: Alka Sarin, J., addressed the case of a 35-year-old Muslim man who married a 17-year-old girl belonging to the same faith. The Court expressed, \u201cMerely because the petitioners have got married against the wishes of their family members, they cannot possibly be deprived of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":335040,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2024\/11\/13\/delhi-high-court-annuls-special-marriage-act-registration-muslim-couple-conflict-islamic-law-legal-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":241035,"position":3},"title":"Delhi High Court annuls Special Marriage Act registration for Muslim couple due to conflict with Islamic Law","author":"Arunima","date":"November 13, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The Court directed that the Chief Secretary of the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) personally intervene to ensure the timely and effective compliance of the judgment dated 04-07-2024 which required the implementation of an online registration mechanism for marriages solemnized under Muslim personal law.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Delhi High Court","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delhi-High-Court.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delhi-High-Court.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delhi-High-Court.webp?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delhi-High-Court.webp?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":292686,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2023\/05\/20\/punjab-haryana-high-court-refuses-police-protection-for-second-marriage-legal-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":241035,"position":4},"title":"\u2018Petition appears to seek Court&#8217;s seal on second relation&#8217;; Punjab and Haryana High Court refuses Police Protection for Muslim Marriage","author":"Ridhi","date":"May 20, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cPerson who does not do equity with others and even to the life companion, cannot approach the Court to seek approval of his relation under the umbrella of Article 21 of the Constitution of India.\u201d","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Punjab and Haryana High Court","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MicrosoftTeams-image-13-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MicrosoftTeams-image-13-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MicrosoftTeams-image-13-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MicrosoftTeams-image-13-1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":270663,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/07\/26\/delhi-high-court-once-two-adults-consent-to-live-together-as-husband-and-wife-no-third-party-interference-including-family-is-warranted-directs-sho-to-provide-mobile-number\/","url_meta":{"origin":241035,"position":5},"title":"Delhi High Court |Once two adults&#8217; consent to live together as husband and wife, no third-party interference including family is warranted; Directs SHO to provide mobile number","author":"Editor","date":"July 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Delhi High Court: In a case where two adults married against the wishes of the family and now anticipate danger to their lives, Tushar Rao Gedela, J. remarked State is under a Constitutional obligation to protect its citizens especially in cases where the marriage is solemnized between two consenting adults\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Delhi High Court","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/delhi_high_court.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/delhi_high_court.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/delhi_high_court.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/delhi_high_court.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/delhi_high_court.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]}],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}