High Court gave its ruling where it cancelled the marriage of a 29 year old Sikh woman who was coerced to marry by her in-laws after the death of her husband. The jurisdiction was given pronounced by Justice Parker.  

The Sikh woman was kidnapped by the family of her husband when she went back to India to attend the funeral of her husband. Two and a half weeks after the demise of her husband, she was forced to marry her father-in-law’s nephew. Her husband was killed in a car accident in India where she went and was given sedative pills and injected with drug by her in laws as she refused to obey their demand to marry again.

The woman was threatened that she will be put to death if she does not agree to marry the groom who was reported to be 27 years old. To maintain confidentiality, the names of the parties concerned were not disclosed by the Court. Annulling the marriage, the court ordered the ruling to be given to the Home Office and Metropolitan Police for the woman’s security.