SIMRAN KAUR vs STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS

CRWP-7750-2026 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 122 CRWP-7750-2026 Decided on : 13.07.2026 Simran Kaur . . . Petitioner(s) Versus State of Punjab and others . . . Respondent(s) CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY VASHISTH PRESENT: Ms. Manpinder Kaur, Advocate, for the petitioner(s) (along with minor detenue ‘Simran Kaur’). Mr. Manjinder S. Bhullar, DAG, Punjab. Ms. Suman Kumari, Advocate, for respondents No.4 to 6 (along with respondents No.4 & 5 present in-person). **** SANJAY VASHISTH, J. (Oral) 1. In the present petition, on 03.07.2026, following order was passed:- “1. Petitioner – Simran Kaur, aged 17 years, has filed present petition, through her aunt Mamta, seeking issuance of direction to respondent Nos.2 and 3, to protect her life and liberty from her own parents, brother and maternal uncle, i.e. respondent Nos.4 to 7. 2. Counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a minor and her family members are exerting undue pressure upon her to marry an unknown person, who is considerably older than her. It is further submitted that petitioner is wholly unwilling to enter into the proposed marriage and has repeatedly requested her parents not to compe