High Court gives Historic Judgment on Inter Faith Marriages
In the ongoing row against inter-faith marriages, the Allahabad High Court in a major verdict has announced that two adults have the right to choose their life partner without parental or societal pressure. The court further clarified that the law permits adults to live together irrespective of any consideration. The court cleared that that no person or family could interfere in their personal life and even the state does not have a right to interfere.
The HC's judgment came on a petition filed by Salamat Ansari and three others living in Vishnupura police station area of Kushinagar. According to sources that Salamat and Priyanka Kharwar married against the will of their families, August 19, 2019 as per Muslim rituals and Priyanka was renamed Alia. However Priyanka's father filed an FIR in the case under the POCSO Act and alleged that his daughter was kidnapped and forcefully married off to Salamat..
However the court noticed that that Priyanka Kharwar aka Alia is 21 years old and quashed the FIR lodged against the petitioners.The court has allowed both of them to live together.
However the court observed that Priyanka Kharwar or Alia has the freedom to meet her family if she wants to and hope that the daughter would behave with all due etiquette and respect for the family. The court also said that the contempt of a person's choice is against the right to freedom of choice. The court said that it does not see Priyanka Kharwar and Salamat as Hindus and Muslims.The court said that Article 21 of the Constitution gives freedom to live peacefully with a person by his choice and desire. It cannot be interfered with. This order has been given by the Division of Justice Pankaj Naqvi and Justice Vivek Agarwal.
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