IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Criminal Writ Petition No.397 of 2010 Smt. Gunjan and another ……Petitioners Versus State of Uttarakhand and others .…Respondents Sri Mohd. Azim, learned counsel for the petitioners Sri S.S. Adhikari, learned A.G.A. for the State/respondent nos. 1to 3. Dated 01st June, 2010 Hon’ble B.C. Kandpal, J. Hon’ble Nirmal Yadav, J. By way of this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioners have prayed for issuing a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the respondent Nos. 1 to 3 for providing necessary and adequate protection to them in order to safeguard their life and liberty. Heard Sri Mohd. Azim, learned counsel for the petitioners, Sri S.S. Adhikari, learned A.G.A. for the State/respondent nos. 1 to 3 and perused the material available before us. It reveals from the writ petition that the petitioners are major and they got married on 13.05.2010 before the Special Marriage Officer, Kashipur Distt: U.S. Nagar. The copy of marriage certificate issued by Marriage Officer, Kashipur has been annexed as annexure No.2 to the writ petition. 2 Respondent no.4, who is the father of petitioner no.1, could not relish this marriage and he became annoyed. Therefore, he has been creating all sorts of hindrance in the peaceful life of the petitioners. Hence, this writ petition. Having considered all the aspects in the matter and hearing the learned counsel for the parties, we are of the view that at this stage no ground is made out to issue any writ in the nature of mandamus to respondent Nos. 1 to 3 for providing the adequate security for the life and liberty of the petitioners. However, we direct respondent no.2 i.e. S.S.P., U.S. Nagar to look into the matter and do the needful in the matter in case petitioners move a representation for providing the adequate security With the aforesaid observation, the petition is disposed of finally. (Nirmal Yadav, J.) (B.C. Kandpal, J.) JKJ 01.06.2010