India, April 11 -- PRAYAGRAJ Observing that unmarried major parents are entitled to live together, the Allahabad high court has granted police protection to an inter-faith live-in couple, while hearing a plea filed by their minor daughter, which claimed that the erstwhile in-laws of the child's mother threatened the couple.

A division bench of justice Shekhar B Saraf and justice Vipin Chandra Dixit, in its order, observed that it appeared that the biological father and mother of the child are of different religion and had been living together since 2018. The court noted that the child is currently one year and four months old.

The court noted that the parents of the child are stated to be "apprehensive of certain threats from the privat...