2018 Supreme(MP) 896
HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH
G. S. Ahluwalia, J.
Samiksha Jain (Smt.) v. State of M. P.
Miscelleneous Criminal Case No. 38918 of 2018 (Gwalior); Decided on 30.11.2018.
Anil Mishra with F. A. Shah for applicant; Devendra Choubey, Public Prosecutor, for respondent/State; Sanjay Bahirani for the father of applicant.
Headnote:Constitution of India -- Art. 21 -- inter-religious marriage -- major girl cannot be kept in Nari Niketan against her wishes -- independence of innocent person cannot be curtailed by keeping her under undeclared detention in the name of her security -- free to go to any place of her choice -- State dutybound to provide her full security --appropriate directions issued in this regard. 2018(2) JLJ 1 (SC), (1976) 3 SCC 234 and AIR, 2006 SC 2522 followed. [Paras 15, 17 & 18
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1. This petition under section 482 of CrPC has been filed by the applicant seeking her release from the Nari Niketan, Gwalior.
2. The necessary facts for the disposal of the present application in short are that the father of the applicant lodged a missing person report alleging that one Mohd. Adil who was pressurizing his daughter to marry him might have abducted her. Accordingly, the police registered the offence in Crime No. 269/2018 at Police Station Mungawali, District Ashok Nagar. Later on, the applicant was recovered and her statement under sections 161 and 164 of CrPC was recorded. In her statement under section 161 of CrPC she has stated that Mohd. Adil by pressurizing and threatening her had forcibly compelled her to deboard the train at Khandwa from where he took her to Nasik and Hyderabad and all the time he was promising that he would marry her. Under the threat, she was kept in a hotel and on 15-16.5.2018 the police brought them to Ashoknagar. Thereafter, the statement of the applicant was recorded under section 164 of CrPC. The statement of the applicant under section 164 reads as under:
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