The Delhi High Court on Thursday criticised the Uttar Pradesh Police for arresting two relatives of a man had married a woman against the ...
The Delhi High Court on Thursday criticised the Uttar Pradesh Police for arresting two relatives of a man had married a woman against the wishes of her family, The Indian Express reported. The court said that the Uttar Pradesh Police cannot arrest people from Delhi’s jurisdiction.
“This will not work in Delhi, this illegal action that you come to Delhi, pick up people and then show arrest from Shamli,” the court said. “We won’t allow this here. It might work in Uttar Pradesh, but won’t work here.”
Justice Mukul Gupta was hearing a petition of a couple who got married on July 1 out of their own free will. The woman’s parents have been opposed to the marriage and threatening the couple.
On the intervening night of August 6 and 7, the Uttar Pradesh Police took away the man’s father and brother from Delhi based on a complaint by the woman’s mother. However, the Delhi Police said that the officers from Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli town had not informed them of their arrival to the National Capital to make the arrests.
The whereabouts of the man’s relatives are still unknown, the couple told the court.
The court said that the Uttar Pradesh Police had violated law at every step by arresting the man’s relatives from...
