Allahabad/IBNS, April 10 -- The Allahabad High Court has granted police protection to an interfaith live-in couple as it heard a plea by their minor daughter alleging threats from her mother's former in-laws.

Citing Supreme Court cases, the court said adult individuals can live together "even if they have not undergone marriage".

The court further observed that the parents expressed concern over "threats from the respondents".

The parents even claimed that the cops had refused to register complaints despite multiple requests to do so and had 'humiliated' them when they approached the police station in UP's Sambhal.

"The Superintendent of Police (Sambhal) is also directed to look into the aspect whether any security is required to be p...