Neha Kumari and Another Vs State of Punjab and Others — Punjab & Haryana HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

Neha Kumari and Another Vs State of Punjab and Others — Punjab & Haryana HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

Direction to respondent No.2 to look into the representation dated 31.07.2025 (Annexure P-5) regarding threat perception at the earliest and take necessary steps, if any required, in accordance with law, to ensure the petitioners' life and liberty is not jeopardized by the private respondents; the direction has no effect on any civil or criminal action permissible in law.

Issue for consideration

Whether protection should be extended to the petitioners, whose representation dated 31.07.2025 alleges threat perception, so that their life and liberty is not jeopardized at the hands of the private respondents.

Court's answer

The petition was disposed of at the threshold without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case or on the nature of the relationship between the petitioners.

Ratio / Principle

Respondent No.2 was directed to look into the petitioners' representation dated 31.07.2025 (Annexure P-5) regarding threat perception at the earliest and take necessary steps, if any required, in accordance with law, to ensure that the life and liberty of the petitioners is not jeopardized at the hands of the private respondents.

Key takeaways

The protective direction was made expressly without effect on any civil or criminal action which could be initiated in the matter in accordance with law.ratio¶7

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

CRWP-8387-2025, decided 02.08.2025 by Sukhvinder Kaur, J.: Petition alleging threat to the life and liberty of the petitioners was disposed of at the threshold, without expressing any opinion on the merits or on the nature of the relationship between the petitioners, with a direction to respondent No.2 to look into their representation dated 31.07.2025 (Annexure P-5) regarding threat perception and take necessary steps, if required, in accordance with law; the direction was expressly made without effect on any civil or criminal action which could be initiated in the matter. Notice was accepted by Ms. Gagandeep Kaur, DAG, Punjab for the respondents-State. Learned counsel for the petitioners relied on CWP No.31834 of 2019 (Megha and another vs. State of Haryana and others, decided 04.11.2019), wherein this Court had entertained a protection petition of a couple in a live-in relationship.

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CRWP-8387-2025

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Learned counsel for the petitioners has relied upon a judgment of this Court in CWP No.31834 of 2019 titled as “ Megha and another vs. State of Haryana and others” decided on 04.11.2019 and submitted that this Court had entertained petition for protection of couples in live-in relationship.

Notice of motion.

On the asking of the Court, Ms. Gagandeep Kaur, DAG, Punjab, accepts notice on behalf of the respondents-State.

At this stage, without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case as well as nature of relationship between the petitioners, the petition is disposed of with a direction to respondent No.2 to look into the representation dated 31.07.2025 (Annexure P-5) at the earliest, regarding threat perception and take necessary steps, if any required, in accordance with law, to ensure that the life and liberty of the petitioners is not jeopardized at the hands of the private respondents. However, this direction will have no effect on any civil or criminal action, which could be initiated in the matter in accordance with law.

		(SUKHVINDER KAUR) JUDGE
02.08.2025.
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	Whether speaking/reasoned?	: Yes/ No
	Whether reportable?	: Yes/ No

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