Mere Fact That Girl Is Below Marriageable Age Won't Deprive Her Of Right To Life & Liberty: P&H HC Grants Protection To Live-In Couple

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that the mere fact that petitioner-girl is not of marriageable age would not deprive her of the fundamental right as envisaged in the Constitution, being a citizen of India. Directing to grant protection to the minor girl,Justice Harnaresh Singh Gill observed that it is the bounden duty of the State as per the Constitutional obligations caste upon it...