JUDGMENT :

VIVEK KUMAR SINGH, J.

1. Instructions produced by learned Standing Counsel are taken on record.

2. Heard Sri Prashant Sharma, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Yogesh Kumar, learned Standing Counsel for the State-respondents.

3. By means of the present writ petition, the petitioners have prayed for a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents not to interfere in their peaceful marital life and also for a direction to provide protection.

4. This writ petition has been filed by the petitioners, who claim to have attained the age of majority and to have solemnized their marriage of their own free will. The allegation of the petitioners is that they are being harassed by the respondent no.4, who happens to be father of the petitioner no.1. Therefore, they seek protection from this Court to secure their life and liberty.

5. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioner no. 1 is aged about 20 years, as her date of birth, recorded in the Aadhaar Card is 01.01.2006, a copy of which has been appended as Annexure No. 1 to the writ petition. It is further submitted that petitioner no. 2 is also a major boy, aged about 19 years, and as his Aadhaar