The Supreme Courtroom on Monday agreed to look at a plea of the Nationwide Fee for Safety of Little one Rights difficult the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom order {that a} minor Muslim woman can marry an individual of her selection.
A bench of Justices S Ok Kaul and Abhay S Oka issued discover and appointed senior advocate Rajshekhar Rao as amicus curiae within the matter to help the court docket.
“This matter must be thought-about,” the bench stated.
Solicitor Basic Tushar Mehta, showing for the NCPCR, submitted that this can be a “critical problem” and sought a keep of the observations within the judgment.
The highest court docket stated it’s going to look at the problem and posted the matter for listening to on November 7.
The only-judge bench of excessive court docket on June 13 had handed the order on a plea by a Pathankot-based Muslim couple who had approached the court docket for defense.
The excessive court docket had stated the problem for consideration within the case was not with regard to the validity of the wedding however to handle the apprehension raised by the petitioners of hazard to their life and liberty.
It had directed the Senior Superintendent of Police, Pathankot, to resolve the illustration of the petitioners and take needed motion as per legislation.
“The court docket can’t shut its eyes to the truth that the apprehension of the petitioners must be addressed. Merely as a result of the petitioners have gotten married towards the needs of their relations, they can not presumably be disadvantaged of the elemental rights as envisaged within the Structure of India,” the excessive court docket had stated.