New Delhi: Consenting adults have a constitutional right to marry each other, and neither society nor the state machinery nor their parents can interfere in their decision, Delhi High Court has underlined.The court was dealing with a petition filed by a couple seeking protection from the woman’s father, who did not approve of her choice. Extending police protection to the couple, Justice Saurabh Banerjee said the right to marry is an incident of human liberty and choice, which is an integral facet of Article 21 of the Constitution and Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
“Since the petitioners herein are both major and are well within their rights to marry each other, and who, being consenting adults, willingly chose to hold their hands and walk through their entire journey of life by entering into the sacred thread of marriage, no one, much less society, the state machinery or even their parents or relatives or friends, can cause interference to the decision of the petitioners in any manner whatsoever from now on,” the court observed in a recent order.The couple married in July 2025 at an Arya Samaj temple and later registered it. They alleged that the woman’s father was threatening them.
