In Brief
A young woman from Karnataka married a man of her choice without parental consent and moved with him to Uttar Pradesh. Her parents filed a missing person complaint, leading to an FIR. The police pressured her to return to the police station, threatening false cases against her husband. The Supreme Court quashed the FIR, holding that consenting adults have an inviolable constitutional right to marry without parental approval. The Court criticised the police's coercive tactics and directed authorities to develop training programmes for handling such socially sensitive cases involving marriages contracted against family wishes.
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