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‘Choice To Live on Own Terms’: HC Reunites Etah Interfaith Couple

The court also quashed the FIR lodged at the Kotwali Defat police station in September against the man.

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Pointing out that a woman, on attaining the age of majority, can choose to live her life on her own terms, the Allahabad High Court, on Monday, 28 December, reunited an interfaith couple.

In doing so, the court, according to Live Law, noted, that the woman had "expressed that she wants to live with her husband (Salman alias Karan), she is free to move as per her own choice, without any restriction or hindrance being created by third party."

In the matter, the court explicitly stated:

“As the corpus has attained the age of majority and she has a choice to live her life on her own terms and she has expressed that she wants to live with her husband Salman @ Karan she is free to move as per her own choice without any restriction or hindrance being created by third party.”   
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