<p>The Supreme Court today asked the Haryana police to provide security to a newly-wed couple against whom a 'khap panchayat' in Faridabad has issued diktat for having an inter-caste marriage.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A vacation bench of justices Prafulla C Pant and Amitava Roy also asked Haryana Police and its Delhi counterpart to file response within four weeks to the petition filed by the couple.<br />Ashish, working in the nephrology department of AIIMS and his wife Bharti, who claims to be a major, had moved the apex court seeking protection from their kin, apprehending threat to their lives for having an inter-caste marriage.<br /><br />The petition, filed through lawyer Sugriv Dubey, said that the girl was an adult and had solemnised marriage with Ashish, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, in an Arya Samaj temple as per Hindu rites against the wishes of her family.<br /><br />The girl, hailing from Haryana, was residing "happily with her husband in Faridabad", the plea said and claimed that her parents, on the directions of a 'khap panchayat', were trying kill her and her husband.<br /><br />Khap panchayats, prevalent in northern India, are village councils generally dominated by members of a single clan or caste.<br /><br />The couple has claimed they had approached the police in Faridabad seeking protection, but did not get any support.<br /><br />"The petitioner had intimated the SHO, Faridabad that they will be murdered as a khap of Haryana has decided to get them eliminated, but the police have not taken any step," the plea alleged.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court today asked the Haryana police to provide security to a newly-wed couple against whom a 'khap panchayat' in Faridabad has issued diktat for having an inter-caste marriage.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A vacation bench of justices Prafulla C Pant and Amitava Roy also asked Haryana Police and its Delhi counterpart to file response within four weeks to the petition filed by the couple.<br />Ashish, working in the nephrology department of AIIMS and his wife Bharti, who claims to be a major, had moved the apex court seeking protection from their kin, apprehending threat to their lives for having an inter-caste marriage.<br /><br />The petition, filed through lawyer Sugriv Dubey, said that the girl was an adult and had solemnised marriage with Ashish, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, in an Arya Samaj temple as per Hindu rites against the wishes of her family.<br /><br />The girl, hailing from Haryana, was residing "happily with her husband in Faridabad", the plea said and claimed that her parents, on the directions of a 'khap panchayat', were trying kill her and her husband.<br /><br />Khap panchayats, prevalent in northern India, are village councils generally dominated by members of a single clan or caste.<br /><br />The couple has claimed they had approached the police in Faridabad seeking protection, but did not get any support.<br /><br />"The petitioner had intimated the SHO, Faridabad that they will be murdered as a khap of Haryana has decided to get them eliminated, but the police have not taken any step," the plea alleged.</p>