HC orders police protection for 21-year-old girl
14 Jun 2013 5:58 AM IST
The Delhi High Court has directed the city police to provide ‘adequate’ protection to a 21-year- old girl who apprehends threat to her life from parents as she opposed their plan to marry her against her wishes.
Allowing the plea of the girl, a resident of Mandawali area in east Delhi who works in a private firm, justice V P Vaish accepted the undertaking given by the girl’s father not to threaten or harass her.
‘The State is directed to provide adequate protection to the petitioner (girl) by providing telephone number of a police official so that she can make a call , if needed...,’ justice Vaish said.
Appearing for the girl counsel Rajesh Gogna and Manoj Pandey told the court that the girl was compelled to discontinue her study and employment for her marriage with an unemployed person against her wishes and desire.
In the plea, she said, ‘Under the parents’ pressure, the petitioner initially agreed to the marriage but after meeting the proposed bride-groom, she had to change her decision as the boy was semi-literate and unemployed.’
Allowing the plea of the girl, a resident of Mandawali area in east Delhi who works in a private firm, justice V P Vaish accepted the undertaking given by the girl’s father not to threaten or harass her.
‘The State is directed to provide adequate protection to the petitioner (girl) by providing telephone number of a police official so that she can make a call , if needed...,’ justice Vaish said.
Appearing for the girl counsel Rajesh Gogna and Manoj Pandey told the court that the girl was compelled to discontinue her study and employment for her marriage with an unemployed person against her wishes and desire.
In the plea, she said, ‘Under the parents’ pressure, the petitioner initially agreed to the marriage but after meeting the proposed bride-groom, she had to change her decision as the boy was semi-literate and unemployed.’
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