New Delhi: Indian supreme court today directed the Rajasthan police to hand over a High court judge’s daughter to her boyfriend whom she wants to marry. The father of the girl was allegedly confined her to bar her from marrying her boy friend who belonged to a different caste. The



"Keeping in view her welfare and the fact that she has already attained majority, we say that she is at liberty to take her own future decisions," a bench comprising justices HL Dattu and C Nagappan said after recording her statement.

The boyfriend of the girl Siddharath Mukherjee had filed a petition in the Supreme Court after the High Court judge put his daughter under house arrest. According to Mukherjee’s petition, Justice Rathore is opposed to marriage between Mukherjee and his daughter.

"She states (in the statement to the top court) that she does not have any ill will against anybody and wanted to marry the petitioner."

The bench then disposed of the petition with a direction to the police to allow her to go to Mukherjee. Earlier, the court had issued a notice on the plea and asked the state police to produce the girl before it on December 16.



The girl had last month written e-mails to Supreme Court and Rajasthan High Court judges seeking help