Check for FIR on Love Marriages

Hyderabad, June 11: There is a check for FIR for the love marriage unless a proof available, according to the High Court.

Coming to details,The Hyderabad High Court has directed the DGPs of both AP and TS to issue standing orders to all police stations that no FIR should be issued in the event of love marriage if proof is available that both the girl and boy are major or unless until it was established that the marriage took place under pressure, threat, intoxication, coercion or undue influence.

Justice Suresh Kumar Kait, in a recent verdict in a case with regard to love marriage, directed both the DGPS to also instruct police officers to investigate cases when parents of a girl lodged a complaint stating their daughter was missing or kidnapped.

The police officials should be directed to close the FIRs whenever it is found that it is not a case

of either girl missing or kidnap, but of love and the marriage was performed by mutual consent and both are major, and file the final report before the court.

The judge advised the police that their main duty was to maintain law and order. Whenever cases of inter-caste and inter-religion marriages come before them, they have to deal with them with utmost honesty and without forcing the youth who marry against the will of their parents to face their wrath.