2025 Supreme(Online)(UK) 46043
HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND
BHAWANA – Appellant
Versus
STATE OF UTTARAKHAND – Respondent
WPCRL 1764 / 2025
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or proceedings
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Date or directions
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and Registrar’s
order with
Signatures
WPCRL 1764/ 2025
Hon’ble Manoj Kum ar Tiw ari, J.
Hon’ble Subhash Upadhyay, J.
Mr. Rohit Kumar, Advocate, i/b Mr.
Ravindra S. Rawat, Advocate for the
petitioners.
Mr. Rakesh Kumar Joshi, Brief
Holder, for the State.
(2) Petitioners have approached this
Court for protection. According to them, they
were in love and they got married as per
Hindu rites and customs on 18.12.2025 and
due to their marriage against the wish of
relatives of petitioner no. 1, they are facing
threat to their life and liberty. As per the
documents enclosed with the writ petition,
both the petitioners are major.
(3) Petitioners, duly identified by their
Counsel, appeared before us. Petitioners
stated that they are serving as Panchkarm
Therapist; petitioner no. 1 is serving as such
at Rohtak in State of Haryana, while
petitioner no. 2 is serving as Panchkarm
Therapist at Dwarka, New Delhi. Petitioners
apprised that since there is difference in
caste as petitioner no. 1 belongs to Brahmin
community and petitioner no. 2 belongs to
Saini community and this is the reason of
annoyance of the family members of
petitioner no. 1.
##PAGE2##(4) Learned State Counsel submits
that he has no objection against the prayer
for protection made by petitioners as both
the petitioners are major, as per the
documents enclosed with the writ petition.
However, protection can be provided to them
only when they visit the native place of
petitioner no. 2 at Haridwar and they shall
give prior information of their impending
visit to concerned SHO.
(5) Having regard to the aforesaid
facts and reasons, writ petition is disposed of
with a direction to the SHO, PS Laksar,
District Haridwar to provide adequate
protection to petitioners, whenever they visit
Haridwar, for a period of ten weeks to
ensure that no harm is caused to them from
the private respondents or any other person
acting on their behest. Upon expiry of ten
weeks, SHO concerned shall look into the
threat perception to petitioners and take
appropriate action, as deemed necessary.
Petitioners shall given prior information of
their impending visit to Haridwar to SHO
concerned.
(6) Let certified copy of this order be
supplied to learned Counsel, today itself, on
payment of usual charges.
(Subhash Upadhyay, J.) (Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.)
23.12.2025
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