'Love Looks Not With the Eyes, but With the Mind': Punjab and Haryana High Court Quotes Shakespeare While Calling for Quashing of Kidnapping Cases Against Runaway Married Couples 'Living Happily'

The Punjab and Haryana High Court recently quoted Shakespeare's "a marriage is a matter of more worth, than to be dealt in by attorneyship" and said that it must consider "with a high degree of latitude" to quash kidnapping cases wherein the accused and the victim had married each other and are "living happily." The high court also raised concerns over the regular filing of petitions for quashing FIRs wherein the man in the runaway couple is accused of inciting the woman by the family who is not in favour of marriage. The court said that parents must take into account that their children may make choices which are individual to them. Speaking further, Justice Sumeet Goel emphasised William Shakespeare's writings in the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream": "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind..........." Notably, the court observed while hearing petitions by a man who was booked in 2009 under Sections 363-A, 366 IPC, after a woman's father filed a complaint and claimed that his daughter was enticed for marriage. HC on Divorce: Wife Not Serving Tea to Husband's Relatives Is Normal Wear and Tear of Married Life, Not Ground for Cruelty, Says Punjab and Haryana High Court.

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