Tag: minor marriages

Counsel for the petitioner submitted that it was a case of love. Even as per the prosecution story as stated in the FIR he voluntarily went to Ludhiana with the present petitioner where the present petitioner entered into a physical relationship with the promise of marriage. Attention was drawn to the statement of the prosecutrix recorded under Sections 161 and 164 Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 wherein she made no allegation against the present petitioner. He did not support the prosecution version but submitted that he was living with the present petitioner voluntarily. Their relationship was consensual. They got married without informing the family members. She subsequently conceived and was blessed with a male child. It is further submitted that at present the prosecutrix is ​​livin