Court No. - 10
Case :- WRIT - C No. - 2634 of 2019 Petitioner :- Vijay Kumari And Another Respondent :- State Of U P And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Dharm Vir Jaiswal,Harsh Vikram Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.
Hon'ble Mahesh Chandra Tripathi,J.
Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Shivajee Srivastava, learned State Law Officer for the State respondents.
By means of present writ petition, the petitioners have prayed for a direction upon the respondents not to interfere with their peaceful married life by adopting coercive measures.
The petitioners claim to be major, and have married with their free will. They are living together as husband and wife. It is alleged that the family members of petitioners are interfering in their peaceful married life.
Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that this Court should issue the necessary directions in view of the decision of the Supreme Court in Lata Singh Vs. State of U.P. & Anr. (2006) 5 SCC 475. He has also placed reliance in the judgment passed by this Court in Aasma & Anr. v. State of U.P. & Ors., Writ- C No.37462 of 2018 decided on 15.11.2018.
It has been averred in the writ petition that no F.I.R has been lodged by the relatives of the petitioners. The allegations of harassment in the writ petition are based merely on the apprehensions.
Learned State Law Officer states that in the present matter an F.I.R. being Case Crime No. 24 of 2019, under Section 363, 366 IPC at Police Station Nakhasa, District Sambhal has been registered and as such no interference is required in the matter.
In the aforesaid facts and circumstances, this Court is not inclined to interfere in the matter under Article 226 of Constitution of India. Once a report is lodged with the police, it will be open to the petitioners to appear before the concerned Magistrate to record their statements.
The writ petition is disposed of with the aforesaid observations.
Order Date :- 24.1.2019 A.K.Srivastava