The Delhi High Court on Wednesday, 10 March, ordered the Delhi Police to provide protection to a 23-year-old lesbian woman, who was married off forcibly, from her family and in-laws.
According to The Indian Express, the woman was pressured to marry a man in October 2019, and has now run away from her matrimonial home. The court directed the cops to ensure neither her nor the members of the NGO helping her, be harassed or harmed.
In the plea filed before the court, via advocates Vrindra Grover and Soutik Banerjee, the petitioner asserted that her parents knew she identified as a homosexual but “forcibly got her married to a man”. Her parents also forced her to continue living in ‘heterosexual relationships’.