Overview
- The division bench of Justices JJ Munir and Tarun Saxena quashed the case on April 21, 2026, after an adult couple challenged an FIR filed by the woman’s father.
- The judges criticized a growing practice of registering crimes and pursuing consenting partners when police should log a missing-person report to trace someone’s whereabouts.
- The court issued a mandamus restraining the father and others from entering the couple’s home or disturbing their marriage, and it ordered a red-ink entry in the station diary noting the quashal.
- The bench confirmed the woman was a legal adult using her high school certificate and accepted a Uttarakhand government marriage certificate and photos showing the spouses chose to live together.
- The order directed the Uttar Pradesh DGP and the Additional Chief Secretary (Home) to implement fixes and warned of further judicial intervention if police practices do not change.