DEEPA AND ANOTHER vs STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS

CRWP-5485-2026 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 136 CRWP-5485-2026 DEEPA AND ANOTHER ....PETITIONERS V/s STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS ....RESPONDENTS Date of decision: 08.05.2026 Date of Uploading:08.05.2026 CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL Present: Mr. Gobind Singh Randhawa, Advocate for the petitioners. ***** SUMEET GOEL, J. ORAL 1. The petitioners have approached this Court for issuance of necessary directions for protecting their life and liberties which according to them are at stake because they are in a live-in-relationship. The petitioners claim themselves to be major in terms of age. According to the copies of the Aadhar Cards (Annexure P-1 and P-2), the year of birth of the petitioner No.1-Deepa is 1993 and the date of birth of the petitioner No.2-Sushil Kumar is 02.08.1990. 2. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that a marriage is not a must for providing security to a couple in a ‘live-in-relationship’ because protection qua life and liberty is sacrosanct and stands at the highest pedestal. He has also placed reliance upon orders passed by the co-ordinate Bench of this Court in ‘Sarabjeet Kaur and another versus State of Punjab and