The Supreme Court has said that the judgment which held that a Muslim girl aged 15 years can enter into a legal and valid marriage as per personal law by the the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the case Javed vs State of Haryana and Others, should not be relied upon as a precedent in any other case
While dismissing a petition for divorce, the Kerala High Court observed that the present trend seems to be to break the nuptial tie on flimsy grounds. It said that marriage is not a mere ritual for intimacy
The constitutional right to freedom of religion, which is also said to include the right to convert, has been taken up time and again by the Indian courts. The problem, however, arises when a person is forced or lured to convert to another religion
The Himachal Pradesh High Court has observed that a victim of a sexual offence cannot have any locus standi to approach the Court for quashing of FIR registered for the sexual assault, which she had faced.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Superintendent of Police, Palwal to investigate the truth behind the marriage of a 19-year-old girl with a 67 year old man, calling it a 'shocking' case.