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HC asks police to give security to new couple
Staff Reporter | New Delhi
The Delhi High Court on Saturday asked the city police to provide security to a newly-wed couple, belonging to two different religious communities, who are allegedly facing threat from their relatives and Jammu and Kashmir police.
“The SHO of Hauz Khas police station, New Delhi, shall continue to provide police protection to the petitioners (couple) and ensure that all steps are taken to avoid any untoward incident and also ensure that they are not removed from the territorial jurisdiction of this Court,” Justice G S Sistani said.
The Court’s direction came on a petition of Anjum Hussain alias Bhawani and Khemraj, the couple, seeking protection on the ground that they could be “killed by the Jammu and Kashmir police which are acting in connivance with their relatives”.
The couple has sought that the Jammu and Kashmir Police and their relatives, who did not approve their affair and the subsequent marriage, be restrained from taking them to the native place. The girl, a resident of Jammu who had taken shelter in a hostel run by V Mohini Giri, former chairperson of National Commission for Women, alleged J&K policemen M K Khatana and Mohd Arif and her relatives assaulted her and Giri on March 26.
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