High Court allows minor girl stay in children’s home as parents want her to get married
The Hindu
In a relief to a 17-and-a-half-year-old girl, whose parents were forcing her to get married after getting her to discontinue studies, the High Court of Karnataka has allowed the teenager to stay in th
In a relief to a 17-and-a-half-year-old girl, whose parents were forcing her to get married after getting her to discontinue studies, the High Court of Karnataka has allowed the teenager to stay in the Government children’s home till she attains the age of majority.
A Division Bench comprising Justice S. Sunil Dutt Yadav and Justice S. Rachaiah passed the order on a habeas corpurs petition filed by the mother of the girl. The mother had alleged that someone had kidnapped her daughter, but the police had failed to take action on the complaint.
When the police produced the girl before the Bench, the girl declined to go with her parents while alleging that she had left her parents’ house on her own and had gone to her brother’s house in Goa as she wanted to continue her studies and was not ready to get married.