Regular Cause List IN THE HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH AT SRINAGAR WP(C) 394/2025 CM (919/2025) Fatima Bano …Appellant/Petitioner(s) Through: None. Vs. Union Territory of J and K and Ors …Respondent (s) Through: Mr. Faheem Nisar Shah, GA. CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJEEV KUMAR, JUDGE ORDER 26.12.2025 1. The petitioners aged 21 years and 28 years respectively claim to have contracted marriage out of their own free will and volition. They filed this petition on the apprehension that the respondents 8 to 13 who are their relatives and are opposed to their marriage are threatening to cause harm to their life and liberty. This petition came up for consideration before this Court on 25th February, 2025, when this Court while issuing notice to the respondents also directed the respondents 1 to 7 to provide protection to the petitioners as and when they approach the concerned police authorities with their grievance. This order has been operating ever since. It seems that the petitioners have taken benefit of the aforesaid order and are leading their life peacefully without any interference from any quarter. Probably, it is because of this reasons that the petitioners have not taken steps for the service of the respondents 8 to 13 and have also not come present today. 2. Be that as it may, having regard to the nature of the controversy involved, this petition is disposed of by directing that in case the petitioners still apprehend any threat to their life and liberty, they shall be free to approach the concerned police station for seeking protection. Needless to say that the police authorities, if approached by the petitioners in this regard, shall take remedial measures as are permissible in law so as to ensure the protection of their life and liberty. 3. Disposed of. (SANJEEV KUMAR) JUDGE SRINAGAR: 26.12.2025 “Shahid Manzoor”