Ms. Pooja & ANR. v. Govt. Of N.C.T. Of Delhi & ORS.
$~24 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(CRL) 2898/2018 MS. POOJA & ANR.
..... Petitioner Through: Mr. Awadhesh Kumar and Mr. P.P.
Singh Rana, Advs.
versus GOVT. OF N.C.T. OF DELHI & ORS.
..... Respondent Through: Ms. Kamna Vohra, ASC for State with Ms. Sarabjeet Kaur, Adv. with SI Prabhkaran, P.S. Chhawla and SI Sunder Singh, P.S. Baba Karidas Nagar.
CORAM:
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAJMI WAZIRI
O R D E R
% 25.09.2018 The petitioners are legal adults and have married each other of their free volition. This marriage does not necessarily meet the approval of R-2. The petitioners have intimated the police about their marriage and have sought protection from this Court as they fear for their life, limb and liberty from the relatives of P-1.
Ms. Kamna Vohra, the learned counsel for the State accepts notice and assures the Court that the matter has been looked into by the SHO of the area concerned and the respondents will be duly sensitized to maintain peace as well as to the fact that the legal adults have a right to make their own
decision in choosing a life partner and the parents cannot interfere in the exercise of such right. The SHO shall interact with the petitioners in the course of the day, in the Court premises. The petitioners will also interact with R-2 and R-3 and impress upon them to maintain peace. Additionally, the petitioners shall be provided with telephone numbers of three police officers from the jurisdiction of the concerned Police Station of which one shall be a lady police officer. These numbers shall be kept operational at all times so that any exigency can be intimated on either of the numbers by the petitioners. Any message received on the said numbers or on any other telephone number of the police either by way of a telephone call or SMS shall be immediately responded to.
The Beat Constable/Division Staff of the area shall regularly visit the residence of the petitioners once a day and report the same in the Roznamcha. The safety and security of the petitioners shall be assessed by the SHO on a weekly basis with due endorsement of the same in the Roznamcha for a month. The Beat Constable shall record entries in his Beat Book. The petitioners shall promptly intimate their address to the SHO concerned in case of change. No further orders are required at this stage. The petition stands disposed-off accordingly. A copy of this order be given dasti to the learned counsel for the parties under the signature of the Court Master.