Love & Truth Wins In High Court
Updated on 23 April, 2008
A total of 19 out of 34 women were released to go home with their husbands and/or in-laws. The rest 15 weren't released as their in-laws could not appear before the court. But for their welfare the kind judges given date of 6th may for their in-laws. Their only crime was that they were eloped with their lovers against the will of their parents, consequently embroiled in many fabricated cases by the family and police. To get their girls back home, in most of the cases girls' families lodges false cases of kidnappaning against the lover boy following which the boy and in-laws were sent to jail as per normal rule of law. Earlier while the court were hearing the case of one Saraswati Devi, they come to know that there are dozens of women arrested in the remand home without any crime. The court had fixed tuesday for the hearing. Some of the women who were released were either pregnant or having babies. The courtroom witnessed an emotive scene when some of the women narrated their story. After the order everyone thanked the Judges by heart.