Shivji & ANR v. The State ( NCT Of Delhi) & ORS

$~51 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(CRL) 3159/2018 SHIVJI & ANR ..... Petitioners Through:

Mr. Vikas Tomar, Advocate.

versus THE STATE ( NCT OF DELHI) & ORS ..... Respondents Through:

Ms.

Nandita Rao, ASC (Crl.) GNCTD with SI Tahir Hussain, PS-Bharat Nagar.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAJMI WAZIRI

O R D E R

% 12.10.2018 The petitioners are legal adults and have married each other of their free volition. Respondent nos. 4 to 6 are said to be inimical to them as the said marriage is without their consent. The petitioners apprehend a threat to the life, limb and liberty from the said respondents and accordingly seek protection for the same.

Ms. Nandita Rao, the learned counsel for the State assures the Court that the matter has been looked into by the SHO of the area concerned and the said 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. 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. Ms. Rao further states that 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. Additionally, the Beat Constable/Division Staff of the area shall regularly visit the residence of the petitioners on a daily basis 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 furnish their address in Delhi to the SHO concerned.

No further orders are required at this stage. The petition stands disposed-off accordingly. NAJMI WAZIRI, J OCTOBER 12, 2018 RW