BALWINDER KAUR AND ANOTHER vs STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS

CRWP-7558-2026 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 121 CRWP-7558-2026 Date of Decision :26.06.2026 BALWINDER KAUR AND ANOTHER ...Petitioners Versus STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI Present: Mr. S. K.Chodhary, Advocate for the petitioners (appeared through virtual mode). Mr. Vikas Arora, DAG, Punjab. *** Harsimran Singh Sethi, J. (Oral) 1. By way of filing this petition, the petitioners seek necessary protection of their lives and personal liberty in view of the fact that they are in a live-in relationship and are under reasonable apprehension of their life and personal liberty at the hands of respondents No. 4 to 8. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are in a live-in relationship against the wishes of respondents No. 4 to 8 and have sought protection to their lives and liberty. It is submitted that petitioner No. 1-Balwinder Kaur is aged about 45 years and petitioner No. 2 – Ravi Lamba Kumar @ Ravi Kumar is aged about 38 years and have not performed marriage, but they are in a live-in relationship and they apprehend danger at the hands of private respondents No. 4 to 8, who