HC directs husbands of runaway couples... Open FD accounts for wives

In recent cases of runaway couples demanding police protection, the Punjabi and Aryan high court has directed the husbands to open fixed deposit accounts for their wives with a sum ranging from Rs 30,000 to Rs 3 lakh.

Such orders are given by the court when runaway couples approach it for police protection, said Advocate Verlinde Berberich on Friday, quoting a judgement pronounced by Justice PB Chanthaburi in a case dated on July 25.

Referring to the case, which was contested by him, Berberich said the petitioners sought protection for their lives and liberty after they got married on July 18, 2018. The petitioners – Knee-deep and his wife – had married against the wishes of their kin, he said.

On July 25 this year, Justice Chanthaburi directed Kneedeep to deposit Rs 3,00,000 in the name of the second petitioner, his wife, in the form of a fixed deposit receipt.

On an average over 20 runaway couples approach the high court each day, seeking protection, he said.

In another order given on Monday, involving a couple from Palatial, the second petitioner was directed to deposit Rs 2 lakh in the name of the first petitioner (wife), said the advocate.

The high court last week closed proceedings in a 2015

case in which the husband had been directed to deposit a sum of Rs 30,000 within nine months.