Children are not property… they cannot be imprisoned… and the Supreme Court rejected the parents’ petition.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court rejected the application in which the petitioner parents had demanded criminal action against their daughter’s partner. he/she had said that his/her daughter was a minor at the time of marriage. The Supreme Court rejected this application and said that children are not property. The bench of Chief Justice Sanjeev Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar said that the girl was not a minor at the time of marriage. The parents did not accept the marriage and filed an FIR against the person who married their daughter.

‘No right to imprison a child’
The Chief Justice said that you do not have the right to imprison your adult child. You do not accept the relationship with your adult child, rather you consider your child as property. The child is not property. Accept your daughter’s marriage. The Supreme Court found discrepancies in the girl’s birth certificate presented by the girl’s parents and said that it is not going to hear the case further. The Supreme Court said that it will not interfere in the decision of the High Court. Madhya Pradesh High Court, in its order given on August 16, dismissed the case related to sexual assault and kidnapping of a minor. The girl’s father had alleged before the police that his/her minor daughter had been kidnapped. he/she alleged that his/her daughter was missing and the police registered a case under kidnapping and other sections.

The High Court dismissed the case saying that the girl was an adult and had married of her own free will. On August 16, the Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court had quashed an FIR registered against a resident of Mahidpur for alleged kidnapping and sexual exploitation of a minor. The Supreme Court refused to set aside the High Court’s decision.