{"id":250329,"date":"2021-06-25T14:30:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=250329"},"modified":"2021-06-25T13:38:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T08:08:58","slug":"inter-faith-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2021\/06\/25\/inter-faith-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"Utt HC | Majors are free to choose their life partners; Court directs protection to an inter-faith couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Uttaranchal High Court: <\/strong>The Division Bench of Ragvendra Singh Chauhan, CJ and Alok Kumar Verma, J., decided in the matter of a petition filed apprehending a threat to life and liberty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Petitioners had submitted that they had fallen in love with each other, both of them got married on 26-02-2021 as per the Muslim customs and rites and that their marriage was inter-faith. Both petitioners were found to be major. Respondents, the mother and father of petitioner 1 never accepted the marriage and threatened to kill them. The petitioner stated that they had filed a representation to the Senior Superintendent of Police for the protection of their lives and liberties but no action has been taken.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court concluded that <strong>since both the petitioners are major, they are free to choose their life partners, the respondent cannot be permitted to interfere with the fundamental rights of the petitioners. <\/strong>The Court directed the Station House Officer, Police Station Rudrapur to immediately provide police protection to both the petitioners. The Court added that \u201c<em>The protection shall not only be for their lives, but shall also extend to protecting their property, if any.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[Noori Begum v. State of Uttarakhand, Writ Petition (Crl) No. 955 of 2021, decided on 22-06-2021]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Suchita Shukla, Editorial Assistant has reported this brief.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uttaranchal High Court: The Division Bench of Ragvendra Singh Chauhan, CJ and Alok Kumar Verma, J., decided in the matter of a <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[46358,29785,46359,29244,35263],"class_list":["post-250329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-inter-faith-couple","tag-law","tag-life-partners","tag-protection","tag-uttaranchal-high-court"],"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>Utt HC | Majors are free to choose their life partners; 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