KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA,J - (1.) IN summer vacations, I am holding the court to decide anticipatory bail applications and the habeas corpus petitions. Out of 26 matters listed for today before me, 10 matters pertain to marriage between young persons aged more than 18 to 21 years. In most of the petitions, boys and girls, who are newly married couples, are present in the court intend to take up all the petitions by one order.
(2.) CRIMINAL Writ Petition No. 555 of 2008 has been filed by Ashok Kumar praying that his wife Mala Kumari has been taken away by her parents- respondent Nos. 1 and 2 and brother-respondent No. 3. He seeks production of his wife Mala Kumari. Criminal Misc. No. 15558-M of 2008 has been preferred jointly by Amandeep Kaur and Rajesh Kumar. Amandeep Kaur is present in the court. She states that her father is agriculturist holding more than 15 acres of land and they are three sisters. She states that she is 18 years old. Photographs of marriage (Annexure P-3) have been also attached. Annexure P-1 is birth certificate of Amandeep Kaur. Amandeep Kaur was born on 22.04.1990. Rajesh Kumar has relied upon Identity Card issued by Election Commission of India and has stated that his age is 21 years and as per the identity card, which was issued on 22.11.2006, his age was then 19 years. Amandeep Kaur and Rajesh Kumar both are present in the court and they have stated that they have performed their marriage.
(3.) CRIMINAL Misc. No. 15559-M of 2008 has been preferred by Anjali Bajaj and Aman Rohilla. Anjali Bajaj is present in the court and states that she is a student of B.Sc. 2nd year in Kurukshetra University and her age is 21 years. She has relied upon Ration Card (Annexure P-1) to state that she was aged 17 years when Ration Card was issued in the year 2005. Petitioner No. 2-Aman Rohilla also relied upon Ration Card, in which his age has been given 16 years and this Ration Card has been issued, as per the counsel, earlier, and now he is more than 22 years. Reliance has also been placed upon Annexure P-3 (Matriculation Certificate of Anjali Bajaj), wherein her date of birth has been recorded as 18th January, 1989. Aman Rohilla has also relied upon the Matriculation Certificate, in which his date of birth has been given as 27th October, 1986. They have also relied upon photographs (Annexure P-6) to show that they have performed their marriage. They have also relied upon marriage certificate issued by Vedic Hindu Sabha, Ghaziabad.;