Punjab & Haryana HC Suggests Jurisdiction For Hearing Protection Petitions Of Runaway Couples Be Conferred Upon Lower Courts [Read Order]

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday remarked that the protection petitions filed before it by runaway couples is "the most demeaning childlike work High Court Judges have been forcibly tasked with..." While allowing the plea for protection filed by a Jalandhar-based couple, Justice Rajiv Narain Raina suggested that such cases should instead be heard by the subordinate courts, so...