Jagroop Ali Is Muslim, But Kulwant Kaur Is Hindu?

[Mehtab Singh]

http://publication.samachar.com/pub_article.php?id=10007084&nextids=10006499|10005952|10007084|10005954|10005953&nextIndex=3

[hkaurP]

The author totally messed up with the title.

[Guest SarabjeetSingh]

She is a sikh , not a hindu

[.- Prabhjot Singh -.]

Chandigarh, September 2

After approaching a gurdwara and a mosque, a couple has now come to “the temple of justice”.

Staying together after the religious institutes refused to marry them off as the “girl” is Jat Sikh and the “boy” is Muslim, they have now moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court for protection.

The counsel for petitioners, Kulwant Kaur and Jagroop Ali of Moga district, has asserted: “Out of love and affection, they decided to live together as husband and wife. They left their villages on June 22, as the girl’s parents were not ready to accept their marriage. The petitioners approached a gurdwara, as well as a masjid, for solemnisation of their marriage, but both institutions refused to conduct their marriage on the ground that the same was unacceptable as the petitioners belonged to difference religions.”

“Ultimately the petitioners, as token of commitment to each other for living together, solemnised their marriage themselves by garlanding each other. Since then, they have been in a live-in relationship as husband and wife. They are on the run since they left their villages; and apprehend serious threat to their life from private respondents.”

Taking up the petition, Justice Daya Chaudhary of the Punjab and Haryana High Court directed the state of Punjab, the Moga SSP and other official respondents to protect the life and liberty of the petitioners.