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The Kerala High Court said that it volition determine connected the transit bail petition by histrion Mohammad Farmaan Khan and his wife, whose video from the Maha Kumbh Mela had gone viral, successful a kidnapping lawsuit filed by her father, connected June 3.
The tribunal stated that it volition lone beryllium considering a transit bail and not an anticipatory bail since the offence is registered successful Madhya Pradesh.
Charges nether the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, and the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 were laid against Mr. Khan, astatine the ailment made by the begetter of the woman. Her begetter had claimed that she was a minor.
The mates submitted grounds successful tribunal regarding the day of commencement of the pistillate to beryllium that she is not a minor, including Aadhaar ID, slope passbook, commencement certificate, and predetermination ID card. They claimed that the offences registered against Mr. Khan would not basal since the pistillate was supra 18 years of age, and she had submitted an affidavit earlier the tribunal stating that she had consented to the matrimony with Mr. Farmaan.
Police contention
The Madhya Pradesh Police contended successful tribunal that the commencement certificate and matrimony certificate provided by the petitioners were obtained by providing mendacious information. They besides claimed that since the couple’s matrimony was conducted astatine a temple successful Neyyatinkara, the matrimony was not legally valid nether the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955.
The mates countered that their matrimony was registered nether the Kerala Registration of Marriage (Common) Rules, 2008, and that each marriages successful the State are compulsorily registered irrespective of the religion of the parties nether these rules.
The mates besides requested a month’ clip to attack the Madhya Pradesh High Court if the Kerala High Court granted the transit bail petition.
