GEORGE AND ANOTHER vs STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS

CRWP-5930-2026 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 227 CRWP-5930-2026 Date of decision: 25.05.2026 GEORGE AND ANOTHER .... PETITIONER(S) VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS ....RESPONDENT(S) CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE JASJIT SINGH BEDI Present: Mr.Amrit Paul Nahar, Advocate for the petitioners. **** JASJIT SINGH BEDI, J. (Oral) The petitioners have approached this Court for issuance of necessary directions to respondents No.2 & 3 for protecting their lives and liberties which according to them are at stake because they are in a live-in-relationship. 2. The petitioners claim themselves to be majors (as on date petitioner No.2 is major). According to the copies of the Aadhar Cards (Annexure P-1 and P-2), the exact date of birth of the petitioner No.1 is 12.08.1998 and the date of birth of the petitioner No.2 is 24.05.2008. 3. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that a mar- riage is not a must for providing security to a couple in a ‘live-in-relation- ship’ 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 an