The controversial incident of house arrest of daughter by Rajasthan High Court Judge Raghuvendra Singh Rathore came to an end today with the Supreme Court directing the State police to release the girl to her lover Siddharth Mukherjee..The direction was issued by a Division Bench comprising Justices HL Dattu and C Nagappan in a Habeas Corpus petition filed by Siddharth Mukherjee (Siddharth Mukherjee v. Commissioner of Police & Ors., WP (Crl.) 215/ 2013)..The matter had come to light when Siddharth had filed the petition in the Supreme Court alleging that Justice Rathore, who was opposed to the marriage between his daughter Supriya Rathore and Siddharth, had held kept her under house arrest. The opposition to the marriage was allegedly due to difference in caste..When the matter came up for hearing on December 11, the Supreme Court had issued notice to the respondents and had directed the State police to produce Supriya before the Court to ascertain from her, the veracity of the facts..When Supriya was produced before the Court today, she gave a statement to the effect that she did not have any ill will against anybody but wanted to marry Siddharth..Relying on her statement, the Court proceeded to hold that since she had attained majority, she was at liberty to take decisions about her future and, therefore, directed the State police to hand her over to Siddharth..Justice Rathore sits at the Jaipur Bench of the Rajasthan High Court. He had enrolled with the Bar in 1978 and had been elevated as High Court judge in 2007.
The controversial incident of house arrest of daughter by Rajasthan High Court Judge Raghuvendra Singh Rathore came to an end today with the Supreme Court directing the State police to release the girl to her lover Siddharth Mukherjee..The direction was issued by a Division Bench comprising Justices HL Dattu and C Nagappan in a Habeas Corpus petition filed by Siddharth Mukherjee (Siddharth Mukherjee v. Commissioner of Police & Ors., WP (Crl.) 215/ 2013)..The matter had come to light when Siddharth had filed the petition in the Supreme Court alleging that Justice Rathore, who was opposed to the marriage between his daughter Supriya Rathore and Siddharth, had held kept her under house arrest. The opposition to the marriage was allegedly due to difference in caste..When the matter came up for hearing on December 11, the Supreme Court had issued notice to the respondents and had directed the State police to produce Supriya before the Court to ascertain from her, the veracity of the facts..When Supriya was produced before the Court today, she gave a statement to the effect that she did not have any ill will against anybody but wanted to marry Siddharth..Relying on her statement, the Court proceeded to hold that since she had attained majority, she was at liberty to take decisions about her future and, therefore, directed the State police to hand her over to Siddharth..Justice Rathore sits at the Jaipur Bench of the Rajasthan High Court. He had enrolled with the Bar in 1978 and had been elevated as High Court judge in 2007.