PAIHAM AND ANOTHER vs STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS

IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. 117 CRWP-4468-2026 (O&M). Date of Decision: 26.05.2026. Paiham and another ....Petitioners. VERSUS State of Punjab and others ....Respondents. **** CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY VASHISTH -- Present: Mr. Shivam Vashisth, Advocate for the petitioners. ---- SANJAY VASHISTH, J. (Oral) 1. By way of filing this petition, petitioners seek necessary protection of their lives and personal liberty in view of the fact that they have not solemnized their marriage so far and are living in a live-in relationship, as petitioner No.1-Paiham is though major but not of marriageable age, and are under eminent threat at the hands of respondents No.4 to 11. 2. On 18.05.2026, following was recorded:- i) Learned State counsel has produced the School Leaving Certificate of petitioner No.1–Paiham and submits that her date of birth is recorded as 02.04.2008. He further informs that DDR No. 94 dated 11.04.2026 has already been registered regarding the missing of petitioner No.1 at Police Station Ganj, District Rampur, Uttar Pradesh. (ii) Let the aforesaid facts be verified by the respondent-State, particularly as to whether there are any allegations a