police protection to a couple facing threats from their family post-marriage, the Delhi High Court has said the right to marry a person of one's own choice is indelible and constitutionally protected and not even family members can object to such matrimonial ties.
In a recent order, Justice Tushar Rao Gedela emphasised that the State is under a constitutional obligation to provide protection to its citizens and the high court, being a constitutional court, is extheir parents' wishespected to further the constitutional rights of the couple
"The right of the petitioners to marry a person of their own choice is indelible and protected under the Constitution, which cannot be diluted in any manner whatsoever," the court said.
"There is no doubt about the factum of marriage between the petitioners and the fact that they are major. No one, not even the family members, can object to such relation or to the matrimonial ties between the petitioners," the court asserted while dealing with the couple's petition for police protection.
The petitioners submitted that they got married in April against the wishes of their parents and have been living together happily since then amid threats from family members, particularly the mother of the woman.
The court directed the "State to provide protection to both the petitioners and ensure that no harm befalls either of them, particularly, from the parents or the family members" of the woman and asked the beat officer concerned to periodically check on them
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