GIRLS HAVE FREEDOM TO LIVE AFTER ATTAINING MAJORITY- PUNJAB AND HARYANA HC

GIRLS HAVE FREEDOM TO LIVE AFTER ATTAINING MAJORITY- PUNJAB AND HARYANA HC

26TH OCTOBER 2020 

The Punjab and Haryana high court has held that young women who have attained the age of majority are entitled to make their choice and to live wherever they want. In such circumstances, the court cannot act as super guardian to impose any restrictions on them, the high court further clarified in its order to allow two young women, who have attained the age of majority and belong to Haryana’s Nuh district, to measure within the place of their choice.

The High Court dismissed the habeas corpus petition filed by a resident of Nuh district, seeking directions to police to search for his daughters and get them released from illegal custody of those persons with whom she is living. The petitioner had submitted that his daughters are unmarried and taken some money and jewellery from his house and had allegedly been kidnapped by some people .