Stop chasing couples who have married of their own free will: HC raps UP Police
Prayagraj, April 26 -- The Allahabad high court has quashed an FIR lodged against a married couple observing that the police are doing a great disservice by registering FIRs and chasing young couples who have married of their own free will.
A bench of justices JJ Munir and Tarun Saxena also asserted that a message should go out now to every citizen in the country that the age of majority has to be respected and so also the constitutional culture. Criticising the police action or trend in registering FIRs and investigating consensual marriages instead of probing other crimes, the court directed the Uttar Pradesh DGP to take remedial action in such cases.
The court observed that no one has the right to tell a major where he or she will stay o...
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