NAFEEZA KHAN MANDEEP KAUR Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) APPLICATION is allowed subject to all just exceptions. Criminal miscellaneous application stands disposed of. Criminal Misc. No.M-14001 of 2012

(2.) BOTH the petitiones are present in the Court and are identified by their counsel.

(3.) HOWEVER, lest this order is misunderstood, it is clarified that this Criminal Misc. M-No.14001 of 2012 (O&M) 3 order shall not mean that the petitioners had reached the age of marriage, as required by the law applicable to them, at the time of their marriage or that their marriage is legal as per the relevant provisions of law. I say so because neither it is the issue involved in the present petition nor this Court is putting its seal of approval on the validity of marriage of the petitioners. In fact, it is the domain of the matrimonial Court of competent jurisdiction, to decide the validity of the marriage and that too on the basis of the pleadings taken and the evidence led by the parties in the given circumstances of each case.