Overview
- The Madhya Pradesh government told the Kerala High Court that the couple’s regular anticipatory-bail plea cannot be heard there because the FIR is in MP, and the court kept its interim protection from arrest in place while it considers that objection.
- Relying on a recent Supreme Court ruling in Priya Indoria, the MP side argued the pair can only seek short “transit” protection in Kerala to approach MP courts, as the petitioners’ lawyer said he would explain why Kerala was the proper forum.
- The couple has separately moved the MP High Court to reinstate her birth certificate and to order an independent inquiry into alleged forgery and the deletion of her original record from a state portal.
- The case stems from an MP FIR under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the POCSO child-protection law, and the SC/ST Atrocities Act after the NCST indicated she could be underage, which the couple disputes by citing Kerala police checks of her Aadhaar, PAN and voter ID showing a 1 January 2008 birth date.
- They say they married in Kerala in March 2026 and accuse her father and others of harassment, social-media campaigns that labeled the husband a terrorist, and police visits that forced them to shift homes within Kerala.