HC gives police protection to sisters who fear for their lives

The Bombay High Court has ordered police protection for two sisters, averse to living with the men they were allegedly married to at very young age while the man one of them married against the family wishes, was killed.
The bench of justices Ranjit More and Anuja Prabhudessai ordered police protection for the two sisters after one of them moved the court earlier this month, saying they feared for their lives after the man she had married last year, defying her family, was murdered.
In an order to the senior inspector of Dahisar police station last week, the bench said considering the allegations, the two sisters should be given protection till further orders.

The judges, who heard the petition in their chamber and not in the open court room, adjourned the hearing to May 2.
The petitioner said her parents married her and her sister off when both of them were just about three years old.
She said now that both of them have grown up, their family was insisting that they should move in with their so- called husbands.

The petitioner added that resisting family's insistence, she married a man of her choice in February 2016.
But her parents didn't approve of it and her husband was abducted by two persons on March 23 this year and severely beaten up, she said adding he died in hospital two days later.

She said she and her sister now feared for their own lives, she said while seeking police protection and transfer of probe to another police station.
Additional public prosecutor M M Deshmukh told the court that after the petitioner's husband died, four of her relatives were arrested and the probe was underway.