Kin object to 3rd wedding, woman seeks protection

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 8

A woman married thrice, along with her husband, has approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court, seeking protection of life and liberty after she claimed that she received threat from her parents and relatives.

The High Court has made it clear that its direction to the police authorities to decide the couple’s representation for protection would not be treated as a stamp of approval on their marriage or the bride’s divorce from her “earlier husbands”.

Apprehending danger to their life, she and her third husband told Justice Harsimran Singh Sethi’s Bench that her parents and relatives objected to the marriage.

The couple’s counsel submitted that the private respondents — relatives — might cause harm to the petitioners as they had solemnised the marriage against their wishes. The woman has divorced both her earlier husbands.

The counsel further argued that both petitioners were major and had solemnised the marriage according to the Hindu rites on November 29. They wanted to live an independent life without any interference from the bride’s parents and relatives.

He also drew the court’s attention to a representation dated November 2 made by the petitioners to the respondent — the Commissioner of Police, Jalandhar — for protecting their life and liberty.

Justice Sethi directed the respondent to take appropriate decision on the couple’s representation, expressing apprehensions.

The judge set a month’s deadline for the purpose.

Threat from family

Apprehending danger to their life, she and her third husband told Justice Harsimran Singh Sethi's Bench that her parents and relatives objected to the marriage.