Pawan Kumar v. the State NCT of Delhi through Its SHO Ps Bhajanpura
Case brief
What is this about?
Delhi High Court, W.P.(CRL) 1332/2025, decided 07.05.2025; Bench: Justice Subramonium Prasad and Justice Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar. Petitioner Pawan Kumar (counsel Girish Kumar) versus State NCT of Delhi through SHO PS Bhajanpura (Sanjay Lao, Standing Counsel (CRL), with Abhinav Kumar Arya and Aryan Sachdeva). Subject: production/habeas-style writ petition concerning an adult woman allegedly confined by her brother after an inter-faith (Hindu-Muslim) marriage solemnised on 11.04.2025; brother took her on 16.04.2025; woman produced in Court on 07.05.2025 and expressed wish to live with her parents; Court found no detention by family; validity of marriage left uncommented; petition disposed of.
What did the court decide?
The prayer sought in the petition (to trace and produce the petitioner's purported wife) stood answered — the woman was produced before the Court, found not to be detained by her family; the writ petition was disposed of.