JUDGMENT

1. Heard the parties.

2. This criminal misc. petition has been filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. for protection to life and personal liberty of the petitioners.

3. The petitioners are major and have entered into registered marriage with each other. Supporting document of their marriage is on the record. The petitioners have approached this court for protection of their life and liberty as private respondents are not approving and recognizing their marriage.

4. The law is well settled that privacy and liberty of individuals cannot be infringed by taking the law in one’s hands. If there is allegation of violation of law, the aggrieved person may take legal recourse and no other step can be at the whim of anyone.

5. In Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India (2018) 10 SCC 1, The Supreme Court said as follows:-

"The right to privacy enables an individual to exercise his or her autonomy, away from the glare of societal expectations. The realisation of the human personality is dependent on the autonomy of an individual. In a liberal democracy, recognition of the individual as an autonomous person is an acknowledgment of the State’s respect for the capacity of the individual to make indepen