The Supreme Courtroom has directed high police officers of Punjab and Haryana to urgently take into account a plea by two live-in-couples in search of safety for his or her lives with out being influenced by observations made by the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom that earlier turned down their plea.
The Excessive Courtroom had final month handed two separate orders noticed that granting any safety to the consenting adults would “disturb your entire social cloth of the society” as “live-in relationships usually are not socially or morally acceptable”.
Difficult the 2 orders earlier than the highest court docket, advocate Abhimanyu Tewari showing for the 2 set of petitioners argued that the {couples} are consenting adults desirous of getting married. Nonetheless, they have been on the run as their households have been against their union and even threatened to kill them.
Coping with their appeals, Trip Bench of Justices Navin Sinha and Ajay Rastogi famous that the matter involved life and liberty of residents. One couple wrote to the Senior Superintendent of Police, District Tarn Taran in Punjab for cover in April this 12 months. Across the identical time, the couple within the second petition requested the SSP, Jind in Haryana in search of related safety.
The bench learn the representations made to the police within the two petitions and allowed the 2 {couples} to complement their representations to the Superintendent of Police. It held, “Because it considerations life and liberty, the Superintendent of Police is required to behave expeditiously in accordance with legislation, together with the grant of any safety to the petitioners in view of the apprehensions/threats, uninfluenced by the observations of the Excessive Courtroom.”
Coping with the Punjab couple, the Punjab and Haryana HC on Might 11 had stated, “The Petitioners within the garb of submitting the current petition are in search of seal of approval on their live-in-relationship, which is morally and socially not acceptable and no safety order within the Petition may be handed.”
A day later, one other bench of the HC whereas coping with the petition of the Jind couple stated, “Within the thought of view of this bench, if such safety as claimed is granted, your entire social cloth of the society would get disturbed.”