2025:UHC:6202-DB 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SRI G. NARENDAR AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE ALOK MAHRA 16TH JULY, 2025 WRIT PETITION (CRL) No. 755 OF 2025 Rani and another. …..Petitioners Versus State of Uttarakhand and others. …Respondents Counsel for the petitioners. : Mr. Sachin Panwar, learned counsel. Counsel for the State. : Mr. V.N. Maulaki, learned Deputy Advocate General. JUDGMENT : (per Sri G. Narendar, C.J.) Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, and learned Deputy Advocate General for the State of Uttarakhand. 2. It is submitted that both the petitioners belong to different religions; that petitioner No. 1 is a Muslim by religion and petitioner No. 2 is a Hindu; that the petitioners developed a liking for each other, which has ended in marriage on 12.07.2025 at Prachin Shiv Mandir, Shivpuri Colony, Jagjeetpur, Kankhal, District Haridwar according to Hindu rites and rituals, and now both the petitioners are living together. Since the family members and others relatives of the first petitioner are against this marriage, they are giving out 2025:UHC:6202-DB 2 threats to kill both the petitioners. Petitioners submit that they are facing stiff resistance, and they seriously apprehend threat to their life and limb from the family and other relatives of the first petitioner, and hence they are before this Court praying for protection. 3. The documents on record reveal that both the petitioners are majors, and it is also submitted by the learned Deputy Advocate General for the State that the parties have performed their marriage on 12.07.2025. The petitioners have also placed on record marriage certificate dated 12.07.2025 as Annexure-2. 4. In that view of the matter, and in view of the ruling of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of Lata Singh v. State of U.P. and another, (2006) 5 SCC 475, the petitioners have made out a case for grant of protection. 5. The Station House Officer, Police Station Pathari, District Haridwar is directed to assess the threat, if any, to the life and limb of the petitioners, and provide necessary protection, if it is found that there is a threat to the life and limb of the petitioners. The SHO is further directed to summon the private respondents, and such other persons, who are inimically placed towards the marriage of the petitioners, and counsel them, in accordance with law. 6. The Writ Petition stands ordered accordingly. 2025:UHC:6202-DB 3 7. Pending application, if any, also stands disposed of. _______________ G. NARENDAR, C.J. _____________ ALOK MAHRA, J. Dt: 16th July, 2025 Rathour PRAVINDRA SINGH RATHOUR Digitally signed by PRAVINDRA SINGH RATHOUR DN: c=IN, o=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, ou=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, 2.5.4.20=23699ccc2fd40ad81b6fd13323779d9e3aeb1097d17d bb53d481cabd25946eed, postalCode=263001, st=UTTARAKHAND, serialNumber=1F65499E931DF71CDAF92A40CC6179B8E0103 31BA695239171F906FD5C45C4E8, cn=PRAVINDRA SINGH RATHOUR Date: 2025.07.19 11:17:00 +05'30'