protection with a direction that any proceedings initiated by a competent person under the provisions of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 would not be affected by this order. The complainant mother os the said Menka initiated FIR No. 07 dated 25.01.2017 (Annexure P-1) on the ground that his daughter had been taken away by Kulveer Singh, the petitioner herein, by enticing her to solemnize a marriage with her. On the registration of the FIR, the petitioner herein approached the High Court again for grant of anticipatory bail under Section 438 Cr.P.C. by filing CRM-M-9710-2017, which petition was allowed by order dated 26.04.2017. It is thereafter, the instant petition has been filed for quashing of the FIR on the basis that the allegations in FIR No. 07 dated 25.01.2017 (Annexure P- 1) are not sustainable since the daughter of the complainant had willingly left in his company and solemnized a marriage and had even approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh seeking protection at the hands of her parents. It is contended that the daughter of the complainant Menka has also suffered a declaration dated 12.05.2017 to the effect that she is happily residing with her husband, and that she had accompanied him of her own free will. Therein is a categoric mention that she was neither kidnapped nor abduced.
