Lata singh v.state of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 2006 SC 2522
The Supreme Court viewed the right to marry as a component of right to life under Art 21 of Indian Constitution the court observed that:
“This is a free and democratic country, and once a person becomes a major he or she can marry whosoever he/she likes. If the parents of the boy or girl do not approve of such inter-caste marriage the maximum they can do is that they can cut off social relations with the son or daughter, but they cannot give threats or commit or instigate acts of violence and cannot harass the person who undergoes such intercaste marriage”.
Both the parents in the case were adults and so free to marry of their choice.’ there is no bar to an inter-caste marriage under Hindu marriage Act or any other law’. intercaste marriages are in fact in the national interest as they will result in destroying the caste-system.
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