Supreme Court of India

Shafin Jahan v. Asokan K.M.

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Bench for himself and A. M. Khanwilkar JJ.
Decided 8 March 2018

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that as a major, she is entitled to exercise her choice and freedom and the 34 (2011) 6 SCC 396 35 (2018) 2 SCC 197 53 Court cannot get into the aspect whether she has been forced by the father or not.

Judgment, page 52

From the headnote

Rainbow is described by some as the autograph of the Almighty and lightning, albeit metaphorically, to be the expression of cruelty of otherwise equanimous “Nature”. Elaborating the comparison in conceptual essentiality, it can be said that when the liberty of a person is illegally smothered and strangulated and his/her choice is throttled by the State or a private person, the signature of life melts and living becomes a bare subsistence.…

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