Supreme Court ‘frees’ Rajasthan judge’s daughter on lover’s plea

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday came to the rescue of the 30-year-old daughter of a sitting Rajasthan High Court judge, who was allegedly kept detained at home so that she could not marry her boyfriend who belonged to a different caste.

A two-member bench comprising Justices H.L. Dattu and C. Nagappan directed the Rajasthan police to ensure that Supriya Rathore, daughter of Justice Raghavendra Singh Rathore, be reunited with her boyfriend Siddharth Mukherjee, who was forced to take legal action to have her released from her father.

“Keeping in view her welfare and the fact that she has attained majority, we say she is at liberty to take her own future decisions,” the judges said after recording Rathore’s statement, saying she wanted to marry Mukherjee.

Mukherjee had filed the petition saying Justice Rathore was against his daughter’s plan to marry him as he did not belong to their caste, and had put his 30-year-old daughter under ‘house arrest”.

The Supreme Court had directed Jaipur’s Gandh-inagar police station to hand over Ms Supriya Rathore to Mr Siddharth Mukherjee and said they could approach the court again if any “inconvenience” was caused to them.

The woman, who sent emails to Supreme Court and Rajasthan High Court judges for help in November, said “she does not have any ill-will against anybody and only wanted to marry the petitioner.”