CRWP/12572/2024 of MUSKAAN AND ANR Vs STATE OF PUNJAB AND ORS on 27 December 2024

CRWP-12572-2024 (O&M)

127IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJABAND HARYANAAT CHANDIGARH

CRW P-12572-2024 (O&MDate of Decision: 27.12.2024

MUSKAAN AND ANR

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.. Petitioners

STATE OK PUNJAB AND ORS

..Respondents

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL

Present:Mr. Naveen Kumar Mehra, Advocate for the petitioners, SUMEET GOEL, J. (Oral)

1,The petitioners have approached this Court for issuance ofnecessary directions for protecting their life and liberties which according tothem are at stake because they are in a live-in-relationship. The petitionersclaim themselves to be major in terms of age. According to the copies of theAadhar Cards (Annexure P-1 and P-2), the date of birth of the petitionerNo.l is 11.12.2006 and the date of birth of the petitioner No.2 is28 15.2006.

? The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that a marriageis not a must for providing security to a couple in a ‘live-in-relationship’because protection qua life and liberty is sacrosanct and stands at thehighest pedestal. He has also placed reliance upon orders passed by the co-ordinate Bench of this Court in ‘Sarabjeet Kaur and another versus Stateof Punjab and others’InCRWP-1020-20)decided on 0Q7.01.2022;‘Goutam Kumar and another versus State of Punjab and others”inJasmine KaurCRWP-8088-?0?]1decided on 26.08.2021: |Bharti and Another Versus2024.12.27 13:39I attest to the accuracy andauthenticity of this document

CRWP-12572-2024 (O&M)

State of U.T., Chandigarh & othersand‘Annu Rani & Anr. vs. State ofHaryana’in.CRWP-]1060-2023|decided on 15.11.2023.

3) Notice of motion to respondent Nos.l to 3 (1e. officialrespondents).

4On the asking of the Court, Mr. Adhiraj Singh Thind, AAG,Punjab, accepts notice on behalf of the official respondents, 5]At this stage, without expressing any opinion on the merits ofthe case as well as on the age and nature of the relationship between thepetitioners; I deem it appropriate to direct respondent No.2 (SeniorSuperintendent of Police, Hoshiarpur) to look into the matter and pass anappropriate order on the representation stated to have been filed by thepetitioners before him/her on 21.12.2024 (Annexure P-3) & passappropriate orders thereupon within two weeks from today.

6. However, if the petitioners are found to have been involved inany other case, then this order shall not preclude the competent authorityfrom taking lawful action against the petitioners.

vaThe petition stands disposed off. Pending application(s), if any,Shall also stand disposed off.

2712.2074

Jasmine Kaun

(SUMEET GOEL)JUDGE

Whether speaking/reasoned

YesNO

Whether reportable

Yes

No