The petitioners have been granted protection in terms of this Court’s previous order dated 25.05.2018 since they chose to marry of their free volition, but not necessarily with the consent of their respective families. Their learned counsel state that with the passage of time, the families appear to have reconciled to their matrimony. Nevertheless, the State has given them protection by sensitizing the respondents – the parents of the parties, to the rights of an adult citizen of this country to choose their life partner and to live as per their own wishes. They have also been provided with three telephone numbers of the police officers, of which one would be a lady police officer. These numbers shall be kept operational at all times so that any exigency can be intimated on either of the numbers by the petitioners. The Court is assured by the learned counsel for the State that any message received on the said numbers or on any other telephone number of the police