DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand HC has directed Udham Singh Nagar police to offer safety to a 19-year-old Muslim girl from Sarwar Kheda village, who’s in a live-in relationship with a Hindu man from the identical village, after threats from her household.
Aksha and Sonu, who’s 11 months older than her, instructed the court docket they plan to marry quickly. She additionally submitted the names of 9 members of the family, together with her mother and father, brothers, and uncles, figuring out them as threats to her and her associate’s lives.Their lawyer knowledgeable the court docket that each household within the village, besides Sonu’s, belongs to the minority neighborhood. Sonu, who studied as much as Class 5, now works as a mechanic in a automobile storage in Kashipur, whereas Aksha studied until Class 10.
A division bench of appearing Chief Justice Manoj Tiwari and Justice Vivek Bharti Sharma ordered the Udham Singh Nagar SSP to “present satisfactory safety to the petitioners in order that they aren’t harmed by the lady’s household and their associates.” The court docket additionally instructed the state counsel to confirm their ages and scheduled the following listening to for October 24. This order follows a current directive by HC to Haridwar police to offer safety to an interfaith couple who was dealing with threats from the household of a Hindu girl who was seven months pregnant.
