The Delhi high court has rejected the plea of a Bangladeshi Army officer seeking deportation of his daughter, who had crossed the border on alleged fake documents to marry a person she was in love with last year. The court said that the woman in question could be subjected to torture or even honour killing and agreed with the Centre’s contention that she was legally married to the man she loved.
In a recent order, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan rejected the plea of Captain Abdus Sabur Khan, who had requested the court to give the Centre directions for deporting her. He had expressed apprehension that his daughter may have been trafficked as she crossed the border on fake documents.
Passing the order, the court said that “honour killing cannot be countenanced in a civilised society, and more so in a body polity governed by rule of law, for right to life is sacred and sacrosanct.” The bench further noted: “...Parental unwanted and unwarranted intervention in the lives of major children is sometimes writ large. In the name of honour — individual, family and community — apart from torture murder also take place.”
The court also said that the case may be treated as an affair of honour and “he (the petitioner) would go to any extent for the cause of his honour...but by such an idea, he cannot have the feeling of a victor and the sufferer at his hand as a vanquished...”