‘Love is blind, more powerful than affection of parents’
A bench comprising Justice B Veerappa and Justice KS Hemalekha made the observation while hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by TL Nagaraju, whose daughter Nisarga, an engineering student, married Nikhil, a driver.
The Karnataka High Court allowed a woman who eloped and then married her boyfriend to stay with him, but cautioned her that what she did to her parents could one day return to her through her children.
A bench comprising Justice B Veerappa and Justice KS Hemalekha made the observation while hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by TL Nagaraju, whose daughter Nisarga, an engineering student, married Nikhil, a driver. In its verdict pronounced on May 25, the court dismissed Nagaraju’s petition.
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The high court while recording the statement also gave some advice to both the parents and their daughter.
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“Our history reveals that there are parents who sacrificed their lives to the children and the children who sacrificed their life to the parents. If there is love and affection between the two, there cannot be any rift in the family and there would be no question of either children going against the parents or parents going against the children to the Court to protect their rights,” the high court said.
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“The peculiar facts and circumstances of the present case clearly depicts that love is blind and a more powerful weapon than the love and affection of the parents, family members and the society at large,” the Court noted in its judgement.
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The high court also had a ‘warning’ for Nisarga: “It is high time for the children to know that life consists of reaction, resound and reflection. What they are doing to their parents today, they will get back exactly tomorrow.”
Nineteen-year-old Nisarga reportedly left her hostel on May 13. According to reports, Nagaraju came to know about her ‘disappearance’ two days later and suspected that Nikhil might have taken her away. He then filed a police complaint under Section 363 of the Indian Penal Code.
Nisarga told the Court that she was a major by age, having been born on April 28, 2003. She told the judges that she married Nikhil (24) in a temple in Anekal taluk on the outskirts of Bengaluru and stayed at Nikhil’s brother-in-law’s house.
She informed the Court that she wanted to live with her husband and did not want to go back to her parents.
Quoting the Manusmriti, the bench said,
“Even according to Manusmruthi, no person can repay his parents even in 100 years for all the troubles that they go through to give birth to him/her and raise him/her to adulthood. Therefore, always try to do whatever pleases your parents and your teacher, because only then does any religious worship done by you will bear some fruit.”
Source : The Indian Express
