Overview
- The Kerala High Court directed the Ernakulam Central police station on Friday to provide adequate protection to Monalisa Bhosle after she said she received death threats and faced public hostility.
- The court ordered Kerala police to accompany Monalisa and her husband, Farmaan, to Madhya Pradesh and back so they can comply with case proceedings there.
- Farmaan retains a one-month transit bail previously granted by a different Kerala bench to enable him to approach Madhya Pradesh courts for anticipatory bail in a kidnapping and related case.
- Madhya Pradesh police have registered FIRs against Farmaan for alleged kidnapping, offences under SC/ST laws and the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act based on a complaint by Monalisa’s father.
- A central factual dispute over Monalisa’s age remains unresolved: an NCST inquiry cited a 2009 birth record that would make her 16 at the time of marriage while documents she produced show a 2008 birth date, and the High Court has posted further hearing for July 10.